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
next prev parent 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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