[Xastir] Trap for Young and Old

[David A Aitcheson]

On 06/18/2014 07:41 AM, Jason KG4WSV wrote:
>> On Jun 17, 2014, at 7:41 PM, David A Aitcheson <david.aitcheson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> chmod 4755 /usr/local/bin/xastir
> This is not a good idea - from a security standpoint it's very bad, and unless xastir is designed to drop/escalate the euid as needed you will end up with files in the users directory that are owned by root, leading to other problems.
>
> The problem isn't xastir, it's ax25 networking. Maybe someone can offer a fix (e.g. udev rule) to solve the actual problem?
>
> -Jason
> kg4wsv
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Try adding "calife" and or "chiark-really" to your system, they fixed a
bunch of irritations for me.

Dave KB3EFS

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