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From: Claudia Neumann <dr.claudia.neumann@gmx.de>
To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Using modem under dosemu 1.1.5
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 23:34:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200307142334.54962.dr.claudia.neumann@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0307140726410.19416-100000@www2.jubileegroup.co.uk>

Am Montag, 14. Juli 2003 08:28 schrieb Ged Haywood:
> Hi there,
>
> On Sun, 13 Jul 2003, Justin Zygmont wrote:
> > I'm suprised to see that I cannot add [write] permissions to others for
> > the /var/lock dorectory.  It just stays at 775.  Has anyone else had this
> > or know why?  i'm using rh9.
>
> You can, but I think you'll find that in your startup scripts, Red Hat
> have put a command which sets those permissions at boot time.  It's a
> historical Unix-type thing.  You shouldn't need to be doing that to
> files in /var/lock anyway, it's a terrible security hole.
>

You could change the lock-directory in your .dosemurc for example to

$_ttylocks = "/home/user/dosemu/lock" 

and the problem with wright permission and security is solved.

Regards

Claudia

  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-14 21:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-13 17:49 Using modem under dosemu 1.1.5 Ralph Alvy
2003-07-13 18:13 ` Rick Knight
2003-07-13 21:23 ` Claudia Neumann
2003-07-13 22:35   ` Justin Zygmont
2003-07-14  6:28     ` Ged Haywood
2003-07-14 21:34       ` Claudia Neumann [this message]
2003-07-15  4:16         ` Justin Zygmont
2003-07-15  5:08           ` Ralph Alvy
2003-07-15  5:12             ` Justin Zygmont
2003-07-13 23:40   ` Ralph Alvy

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