On Mon, Jan 05, 1998 at 12:57:33AM -0800, The Man wrote: > > They should, of course, be mode 0640. I'm not sure if this is Solaris's fault > or the fault of this package. But no matter whose fault it is, it's quite > nasty. :) > The fix for this is to change the entry in /etc/minor_perm for the ff driver. I've been contacted by two people from DIT, and neither seem to think that having a root device readable and writable by anyone with system access is a security problem. They say that the devices must have these permissions in order for users to access devices through the TransferPro application. There are other methods, of course. -- Scott Smith scottat_private Mail received via UUCP, read with Mutt, and composed with vi on NetBSD-1.2G.
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