Re: flexfax: faxsetup on Linux (bug in moduser?)

[Carsten Hoeger <choeger@suse.de>]

On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, Nico Garcia wrote:

> On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, Carsten Hoeger wrote:
> 
> > Another point is, that the uid of uucp and fax has to be the same. That's
> > not a very good solution. We changed this and put uucp and fax in the same
> > group. That works...
> 
> Ummm. This is not ideal. Dial-up lines and lock files are normally
> owned by the calling process, UUCP or HylaFAX. Using the same group
> for the uucp/fax users should only work if the lock files are left
> with group write permission, and the serial lines left owned by that
> user. I'd want to think about that before doing it.

Why not rw-permissions for the 'dialin' groups lock-files?
Do you think that this may be a security hole?


mfG,
	Carsten Hoeger
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