On Wed, 18 Jun 2014, Jason KG4WSV wrote:
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Curt, WE7U <[email protected]> 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. :|
I think we might have more of a lack of security-trained Linux people on our
development team...
Technically it isn't a problem: The AX.25 networking port is implemented
similarly to ethernet ports in terms of permissions.
For Xastir to be able to access the port, it needs root privileges.
So you can't just chmod 666 /dev/ax25 (or whatever) so that xastir can
access it running as joe user?
I would think that would work as well, so one would need to tweak the udev
scripts perhaps. I'm no expert on that, having only hacked on them a few times
myself for other reasons. This would be a bit more difficult for a newbie to
figure out and hack on any given system. There may be details that change from
OS to OS and from version to version. Worth a shot though as an alternate
method.
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Curt, WE7U. http://wetnet.net/~we7u
APRS Client Capabilities: http://wetnet.net/~we7u/aprs_capabilities.html
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