Re: [Bluez-users] ciptool setuid

Nicholas A. Preyss
2004-04-29T22:35:28Z

On 0, Achim Bohnet <ach@mpe.mpg.de> wrote:
> In debian members of group dip and dialout and use modem/isdn devices.
> Unfortunately it looks like that one need to be root to run ciptool
> and make the isdn controler via bluetooth available.
>
> Question: Are there other methods to enable members of group dialout
> to use ciptool that making it setuid root? If not is it safe to
> install ciptool by default like
>
> -rwsr-x--- 1 root dialout 8368 2004-01-26 23:22 /usr/bin/ciptool

Using sudo is the preferable way from security point of view.

nicholas