From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Claudia Neumann Subject: Re: Using modem under dosemu 1.1.5 Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 23:34:54 +0200 Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200307142334.54962.dr.claudia.neumann@gmx.de> References: Reply-To: dr.claudia.neumann@gmx.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org 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