Re: listen utility and permissions

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 08:14:14PM +0300, Tomi Manninen wrote:
> No, that's the only working solution. Listen needs root privileges so it
> needs to be setuid root to work for ordinary users. Though I prefer the
> symbolic "chmod u+s listen"...

On Debian it seems to be installed non-setuid. Although that's a change
from the previous ax25-utils I suppose it makes sense -- normal
users can't run tcpdump either.

Hamish
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