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Re: Help with Kermit5A

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From: william E Davidsen <davidsen@...>
Subject: Re: Help with Kermit5A
Date: Tuesday, August 25, 1992 - 12:05 pm

In article &lt;1992Aug25.004034.23206@engr.uark.edu&gt;, tep@engr.uark.edu (Tim Peoples) writes:

|    I too was only able to run kermit as root until I changed all of my
| tty's to group "tty" (especially the serial port) and made the kermit
| binary sgid tty.  I don't know if this was really needed but now any
| user can run kermit.

  Interesting. I have the serial ports set rw-rw-rw- (and /dev/tty) so
group shouldn't matter. If it does I might seriously think it was a bug.
All rw permissions should be created equal.

-- 
bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&amp;D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
    I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
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