[Xastir] Trap for Young and Old

[Liz]

On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 21:31:29 -0700 (PDT)
"Curt, WE7U" <curt.we7u at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Jun 2014, Jason KG4WSV wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Curt, WE7U <curt.we7u at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >> Xastir does this, but would you want to trust security of your
> >> system to a bunch of hobbyists?  ;-)
> >
> > 'cause that's not something linux users are familiar with. :|
> 
> I think we might have more of a lack of security-trained Linux people
> on our development team...
> 
> 
> >> Technically it isn't a problem:  The AX.25 networking port is
> >> implemented similarly to ethernet ports in terms of permissions.
> >>
> >> For Xastir to be able to access the port, it needs root privileges.
> >
> > So you can't just chmod 666 /dev/ax25 (or whatever) so that xastir
> > can access it running as joe user?
> 
> I would think that would work as well, so one would need to tweak the
> udev scripts perhaps.  I'm no expert on that, having only hacked on
> them a few times myself for other reasons.  This would be a bit more
> difficult for a newbie to figure out and hack on any given system.
> There may be details that change from OS to OS and from version to
> version.  Worth a shot though as an alternate method.
> 

Got caught with the same problem this Sunday.
For Debian packaging it would be possible to insert a question into the
post-install script to ask if you want xastir set with permissions 4755
- or whatever other solution is determined as best for the problem.

I'm not sure how the calife or chiark-really alternates to sudo would
be better than the current system.

Liz
VK2XSE