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regarding soundmodem: starts kiss device with incorrect permissions
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Package: soundmodem
Version: 0.20-5
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
Running soundmodem creates a kiss serial device with permissions that render it
inaccessible to normal users, or users in the tty group.
Upon starting soundmodem with Channel "Packet IO" Mode set as KISS, soundmodem
creates a pty and a link to that file, /dev/soundmodem*.
Normal users, and users in the tty group cannot access this device - this means
packet programs, such as Xastir, have to be run as root.
Listing the file permissions of the created devices shows:
→ ls -al /dev/soundmodem0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Feb 3 00:18 /dev/soundmodem0 -> /dev/pts/6
→ ls -al /dev/pts/6
crw--w---- 1 root tty 136, 6 Feb 3 00:18 /dev/pts/6
While root has rw on /dev/pts/6, group tty only has w. Applications cannot read
the terminal and show accessing it has failed.
I have included a very minor patch which details a proposed fix below. The
patch
allows members of the 'tty' group to read and write to the pty device.
This has been committed to in the debian git server and can be viewed at:
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-hamradio/soundmodem.git/ however it can be
discarded as per maintainer's choice.
Descriptions: Allow group to read/write the created pty
Author: Dave Hibberd <[email protected]>
Last-Updated: 2017-02-24
--- a/soundcard/kisspkt.c
+++ b/soundcard/kisspkt.c
@@ -758,7 +758,7 @@
tm.c_cflag = CS8 | CREAD | CLOCAL;
if (tcsetattr(slave, TCSANOW, &tm))
logerr(MLOG_FATAL, "slave: tcsetattr");
- //fchmod(slave, 0600);
+ fchmod(slave, 0660);
if (dounlink)
unlink(file);
if (symlink(ttyname, file))
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages soundmodem depends on:
ii libasound2 1.1.2-1
ii libatk1.0-0 2.22.0-1
ii libaudiofile1 0.3.6-3
ii libc6 2.24-8
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.36.3-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.50.2-2
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.31-1
ii libhamlib2 3.0.1-1+b1
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.40.3-3
ii libxml2 2.9.4+dfsg1-2.1
soundmodem recommends no packages.
soundmodem suggests no packages.
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/ax25/soundmodem.conf changed:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<modem>
<configuration name="UHF_Packet">
<chaccess txdelay="150" slottime="100" ppersist="40" fulldup="0"
txtail="10"/>
<audio type="alsa" device="plughw:CARD=Device,DEV=0" halfdup="1"
capturechannelmode="Mono"/>
<ptt file="/dev/ttyUSB0" hamlib_model="" hamlib_params=""/>
<channel name="Channel 0">
<mod mode="afsk" bps="1200" f0="1200" f1="2200" diffenc="1"/>
<demod mode="afsk" bps="1200" f0="1200" f1="2200" diffdec="1"/>
<pkt mode="KISS" ifname="sm0" hwaddr="MM3ZRZ-5" ip="44.131.6.35"
netmask="255.255.255.224" broadcast="44.131.6.63" file="/dev/soundmodem0"
unlink="1"/>
</channel>
</configuration>
</modem>
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 0.20-8+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package soundmodem has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1138062
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.
Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.
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