Re: [Xastir] Trap for Young and Old

2014-06-18 Thread Jason KG4WSV
On Jun 17, 2014, at 7:41 PM, David A Aitcheson david.aitche...@gmail.com wrote: chmod 4755 /usr/local/bin/xastir This is not a good idea - from a security standpoint it's very bad, and unless xastir is designed to drop/escalate the euid as needed you will end up with files in the users

Re: [Xastir] Trap for Young and Old

2014-06-18 Thread David A Aitcheson
On 06/18/2014 07:41 AM, Jason KG4WSV wrote: On Jun 17, 2014, at 7:41 PM, David A Aitcheson david.aitche...@gmail.com wrote: chmod 4755 /usr/local/bin/xastir This is not a good idea - from a security standpoint it's very bad, and unless xastir is designed to drop/escalate the euid as

Re: [Xastir] Trap for Young and Old

2014-06-18 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Wed, 18 Jun 2014, Jason KG4WSV wrote: chmod 4755 /usr/local/bin/xastir This is not a good idea - from a security standpoint it's very bad, and unless xastir is designed to drop/escalate the euid as needed you will end up with files in the users directory that are owned by root, leading

Re: [Xastir] Trap for Young and Old

2014-06-18 Thread Jason KG4WSV
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Curt, WE7U curt.w...@gmail.com wrote: Xastir does this, but would you want to trust security of your system to a bunch of hobbyists? ;-) 'cause that's not something linux users are familiar with. :| We do what we can, but I wouldn't say Xastir has been