[Xastir] Xastir release 2.1.6 has been published.

[Tom Russo]

On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 06:37:23PM +0200, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <mlhpub at free.fr> flavor, containing:
> It was not :
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 1437288 avril 18 12:54 xastir
> 
> And now :
> 
> -rwxr-sr-x 1 root xastir-ax25 1437288 avril 18 12:54 xastir
> 
> Does not change anything.
> 
> Maybe I should remove the app and reinstall ?

I would not expect that to help in any way.

There is an issue with how your AX.25 setup is done, and it isn't Xastir's
doing.  Without knowing that, it is hard to say what is wrong.  The most
common set-up of AX.25 requires that Xastir be SUID root, but this has been
discussed as "insecure" for so long that some systems have other solutions,
including various group memberships (like, say, xastir-ax25?).

You could try the more drastic measure of just setting Xastir to have SUID
root, which *should* make it able to connect to AX.25 interfaces no matter
how your system is configured.

  sudo chmod u+s /usr/local/bin/xastir

If that fixes things, you have to figure out why the supposedly more secure
group membership issue wasn't working.  You'll also have to figure out what
you did differently when you installed *this* binary compared to what you did
the last time.  If you had it working before, doing the same thing you did
to get it working before should have worked this time.

The "update-xastir" script does none of this work for you --- it just builds
and installs the binary.  You have to do the permissions/security stuff 
yourself.  These only impact AX.25 networking, which is the only thing Xastir
needs special permissions to use.

How had you installed Xastir previously?  Was it via a package, or via
a source install?  

> Le 18/04/2020 ?? 17:50, Tom Russo a ??crit??:
> > On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 03:08:05PM +0200, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <mlhpub at free.fr> flavor, containing:
> > > Sorry, I forgot an important point : the user which run Xastir is still
> > > member of xastir-ax25 and dialout groups.
> > And are you sure that the binary you installed is sgid xastir-ax25?
> > 
> > sudo chmod g+s /usr/local/bin/xastir
> > sudo chown :xastir-ax25 /usr/local/bin/xastir
> > 
> > > Le 18/04/2020 ?? 13:11, MLHPUB a ??crit??:
> > > > Hi Tom,
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks for update !
> > > > I just have run ./update-xastir script which downloaded and installed
> > > > v2.1.7.
> > > > 
> > > > With this version, the TNC AX25 interface does not start anymore.
> > > > I checked its name in /etc/ax25/axports where it is correct.
> > > > 
> > > > Any idea ?
> > > > 
> > > > 73 de F4ACU
> > > > 
> > > > Matthieu
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Le 18/04/2020 ?? 00:51, Tom Russo a ??crit??:
> > > > > I just pushed out a point release of Xastir 2.1.6.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Users of the master branch code will see no difference --- it's just that
> > > > > we need a numbered release available so that pacakge maintainer can get
> > > > > the benefit of all the changes that have happened since 2.1.4 back
> > > > > in July
> > > > > of 2019.
> > > > > 
> > > > > If you're a package maintainer for any distro and were stuck at version
> > > > > 2.1.4, you might well want to update to 2.1.6 now --- especially if the
> > > > > distro you're working on is getting ready to lock down package versions.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Note that some optional features have been removed --- notably, dbfawk
> > > > > is now required for shapelib support, which means pcre is not optional.
> > > > > The "--with-dbfawk" and "--with-pcre" options of configure are removed.
> > > > > If shapefile support is requested then pcre is required, and
> > > > > automatically
> > > > > enables dbfawk.?? These are all controlled by the single "--with-shapelib"
> > > > > option.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Release notes and downloadable source archives at:
> > > > > https://github.com/Xastir/Xastir/releases/tag/Release-2.1.6
> > > > > 
> > > > > Share and Enjoy.
> > > > > 
> > > > > The master branch now identifies itself as version "2.1.7" (as is our
> > > > > custom on this project, odd numbers mean "version of the day off master"
> > > > > and even are tagged releases).
> > > > > 
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Tom Russo    KM5VY
Tijeras, NM  

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