Re: [Xastir] Trap for Young and Old

2014-06-23 Thread Liz
On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 21:31:29 -0700 (PDT) Curt, WE7U curt.w...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 18 Jun 2014, Jason KG4WSV wrote: 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?

Re: [Xastir] Trap for Young and Old

2014-06-23 Thread David A Aitcheson
On 06/23/2014 06:36 AM, Liz wrote: On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 21:31:29 -0700 (PDT) Curt, WE7U curt.w...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 18 Jun 2014, Jason KG4WSV wrote: 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

Re: [Xastir] Trap for Young and Old

2014-06-23 Thread Liz
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 10:53:26 -0400 David A Aitcheson david.aitche...@gmail.com wrote: It depends how one sets the options in the config files; you can set certain programs to automatically be sudo'd without additional entering of a password. Me I just let them run and make me a semi-root

Re: [Xastir] Trap for Young and Old

2014-06-23 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Tue, 24 Jun 2014, Liz wrote: On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 10:53:26 -0400 David A Aitcheson david.aitche...@gmail.com wrote: It depends how one sets the options in the config files; you can set certain programs to automatically be sudo'd without additional entering of a password. Me I just let them

Re: [Xastir] Trap for Young and Old

2014-06-23 Thread Lee Bengston
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 6:36 AM, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 21:31:29 -0700 (PDT) Curt, WE7U curt.w...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 18 Jun 2014, Jason KG4WSV wrote: On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Curt, WE7U curt.w...@gmail.com wrote: Xastir does this, but would

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

[Xastir] Trap for Young and Old

2014-06-17 Thread David
Hi All..A couple of days ago i used ./update-xastir on my Linux Mint 17 box update was ok but i found i couldnt access my AX25 tncport socket: Operation not permitted message came up in terminal that i started it in..went round and round trying to find the answer..not too much

Re: [Xastir] Trap for Young and Old

2014-06-17 Thread David A Aitcheson
Curt/Tom, This occurrence leads me to wonder if we should consider adding chmod 4755 /usr/local/bin/xastir as the last line (or near to the last line) to the script ./update-xastir for the next release? 73 Dave KB3EFS On 06/17/2014 05:58 PM, David wrote: Hi All..A couple of days ago i

Re: [Xastir] Trap for Young and Old

2014-06-17 Thread David A Aitcheson
Actually that line is in the file just commented out and replaced with chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/xastir Thus for Dave VK4BDJ's benefit a simple edit of the update-xastir script would fix the problem as long as update-xastir does not get changed with each update. Which would be the equal of a dog

Re: [Xastir] Trap for Young and Old

2014-06-17 Thread David
Hi David..i t is a problem that ears its head if you use a AX25 Tnc port but it could impact other things at times i will do some testing of the update-xastir script with the line added an see if it works with each update thanks for the info David 73 David VK4BDJ On 18/06/14 12:45,