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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!ogicse!pdxgate!brians@rigel.cs.pdx.edu From: brians@rigel.cs.pdx.edu (Brian Smith) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Fix for problem with tip in 386BSD Message-ID: <5940@pdxgate.UUCP> Date: 28 Jul 92 15:03:07 GMT Article-I.D.: pdxgate.5940 Sender: news@pdxgate.UUCP Organization: Portland State University, Portland, OR Lines: 26 Well, IT WORKS! I have been waiting for a free UNIX for about 5 or 6 years now, so this is a moment of rejoicing. The only problem I had that wasn't my fault was with the tip program. First, the /etc/remote file needs an alias for the dial2400 entry to be tip0. Second, the permissions are wrong. Tip is suid uucp, but the locks directory /var/spool/lock is owned by root. One can either make the lock directory owned by uucp (I think this is the better idea) or one can make the tip program be set *group* id. The lock is the same group id (wheels) as tip. Now, I said that I think that making the lock directory owned by uucp is the better idea, but that is only theoretically. I don't know if that would break any programs (I have been malformed by early system administration exposure to System V, shudder). So, I then recommend that newbies such as myself make tip sgid. If you don't know what I mean, then: chmod 2540 /usr/bin/tip Brian Smith /---------------------------------------|------------------------------------\ | #include <std/disclaim.h> | Inet: brians@cs.pdx.edu | |---------------------------------------|------------------------------------| | Behold the warranty.. the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.| \----------------------------------------------------------------------------/