Listen command

Listen command

[Cristiano Tavares - SP]

73's to all.

After instaling all the software for ax25 why does the LISTEN command works with root and does not work with my normal user?

I get a error message like:

socket: not permitted

or

socket: permission denied

I am sorry, I'm very new to Linux.
There are some things I don't understand.

Is there any group I must add my normal user?
Which one?

Thanks in advance.

Re : Listen command

[Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh)]

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Christiano,

You can change the /usr/bin/listen executable to be suid root.
Or run it via sudo.

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Regards and 73
			- jean-Luc - f5ibh

Le 09.03.2004 14:41, Cristiano Tavares - SP a écrit :
>73's to all.
>
>After instaling all the software for ax25 why does the LISTEN command
>works with root and does not work with my normal user?
>
>I get a error message like:
>
>socket: not permitted
>
>or
>
>socket: permission denied
>
>I am sorry, I'm very new to Linux.
>There are some things I don't understand.
>
>Is there any group I must add my normal user?
>Which one?
>
>Thanks in advance.
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Re: Listen command

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 01:41:11PM -0000, Cristiano Tavares - SP wrote:
> After instaling all the software for ax25 why does the LISTEN command works with root and does not work with my normal user?
> 
> I get a error message like:

Non-root users aren't allowed to grab all packets on the AX.25 socket,
just like all users aren't allowed to run tcpdump to get all packets on
ethernet.

> Is there any group I must add my normal user?
> Which one?

I don't think Debian has listen set up like that. You can make it suid
root though which would allow anyone to run it. Or suid root, belonging
to a group of your choice without execute permission for others.

I don't know if a permission change would be preserved when you upgrade
the package next though.

Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>