On Fri, 8 Apr 2011, Dale Seaburg wrote:
Subject:
Re: [Xastir] USB to Serial issue
From:
"Curt, WE7U" <[email protected]>
Date:
Thu, 07 Apr 2011 09:35:10 -0700 (PDT)
To:
Xastir - APRS client software discussion <[email protected]>
On Thu, 7 Apr 2011, Dale Seaburg wrote:
Something is seriously wrong with the e-mail package you're using! I don't
know exactly what it is, but when I try to respond to your message I don't see
your latest message in the text I get back to edit. The only thing I can do is
to cut from the e-mail viewer portion before I hit respond, then paste it into
my response. I don't want to go through that each time. What's supposed to
happen is all the ascii text from your original message should appear in my
response text, then I edit out the bits I don't want and write my response at
the bottom.
A sidenote: I've noticed that at least one recent Outlook client messes up
royally when used to forward a message. I've been getting forwarded messages
where it appears that the message came from the original sender (who I often
don't know at all) instead of the person doing the forwarding. They messed up
the SMTP mail headers in the more recent version, making it non-RFC compliant.
Please complain to the correct people if you see this yourself.
So... Back to my response: More than likely you set up Xastir as SUID ROOT on the box that
works. It is one way to get around security for ports: Xastir then gets to run as
"root" when it needs to (for instance opening a serial port). I set mine SUID ROOT
here so that it can access the AX.25 kernel networking ports, but if you're not doing that
I'd recommend adding yourself to the DIALOUT group (or whatever group the serial & USB
ports belong to) instead. It's better security.
--
Curt, WE7U. http://www.eskimo.com/~archer
Additional pages: http://wetnet.net/~we7u
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