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[Karolis Lyvens <karolisl AT gmail.com>]

On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 05:47:08AM +0000, sindi keesan wrote:
> I will figure out the permissions eventually.  Someone suggested chmod 666 
> instead of 777 since ttyS1 need not be executable.

This will remove that executable permission:

----
chmod -x /dev/ttyS1     OR
chmod 666 /dev/ttyS1
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> >> I can try to make a script myself
> >
> > You are very welcome to do that, but personally I have no
> > interest in it.
> I hope other list members will correct it.

Try to write the script and I'm sure that the list will help you if you
make mistakes.

-snip-

> Should I just do 'chmod +s' on anything executable (pppd, eznet, rxvt, 
> Xvesa, Opera, Abiword, gs...) and 'chmod 666' on the com ports and 
> eznet.conf and printcap?

It would work, but it will run these programs with essentially root
privileges meaning that it wouldn't be very sensible in multi-user setup
(in security sense). I don't think that BL was designed for security
(it runs as root as default) so it wouldn't be a big issue.


Karolis