[Xastir] USB to Serial issue (Curt, WE7U)

[Curt, WE7U]

On Fri, 8 Apr 2011, Dale Seaburg wrote:

> Subject:
> Re: [Xastir] USB to Serial issue
> From:
> "Curt, WE7U" <curt.we7u at gmail.com>
> Date:
> Thu, 07 Apr 2011 09:35:10 -0700 (PDT)
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> To:
> Xastir - APRS client software discussion <xastir at lists.xastir.org>
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>
> On Thu, 7 Apr 2011, Dale Seaburg wrote:

Something is seriously wrong with the e-mail package you're using!  I don't know exactly what it is, but when I try to respond to your message I don't see your latest message in the text I get back to edit.  The only thing I can do is to cut from the e-mail viewer portion before I hit respond, then paste it into my response.  I don't want to go through that each time.  What's supposed to happen is all the ascii text from your original message should appear in my response text, then I edit out the bits I don't want and write my response at the bottom.

A sidenote:  I've noticed that at least one recent Outlook client messes up royally when used to forward a message.  I've been getting forwarded messages where it appears that the message came from the original sender (who I often don't know at all) instead of the person doing the forwarding.  They messed up the SMTP mail headers in the more recent version, making it non-RFC compliant.  Please complain to the correct people if you see this yourself.

So...  Back to my response:  More than likely you set up Xastir as SUID ROOT on the box that works.  It is one way to get around security for ports:  Xastir then gets to run as "root" when it needs to (for instance opening a serial port).  I set mine SUID ROOT here so that it can access the AX.25 kernel networking ports, but if you're not doing that I'd recommend adding yourself to the DIALOUT group (or whatever group the serial & USB ports belong to) instead.  It's better security.

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