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From: d88-jwn@moldau.nada.kth.se (Johan Wåhlin)
Subject: Installing kermit, suid uucp?
Message-ID: <1993Aug31.182541.15945@kth.se>
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Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, NADA
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1993 18:25:41 GMT
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Dear net,

Compiling kermit 5A-(182) went without problems using bsd44 as target.
The problem I have is installing it. To be able to access tty0* it needs to
be suid uucp; but suid uucp it cannot access /dev/tty and therefore the
terminal gets confused. Everything works ok with tty0* made writable by
everyone but it shouldn't be like that should it?
I tried setting sguid and using the group dialer but kermit would not able to
access tty0* anyway. Is sguid just for directories?

Thank you for your time,
-- 
/Johan W}hlin (.. where the } really is an a with a ring above it.. 8))