Bug 2922 - minicom no longer SGID "uucp", but /var/lock directory is group uucp
Summary: minicom no longer SGID "uucp", but /var/lock directory is group uucp
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: minicom
Version: 6.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Cristian Gafton
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: 3087 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 1999-05-19 05:25 UTC by pfeif
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 1999-05-19 16:34:42 UTC
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Description pfeif 1999-05-19 05:25:24 UTC 
In 6.0, minicom is no longer SGID "uucp", but /var/lock
directory is only group writeable and it's group is uucp,
so minicom cannot create the /var/lock/LCK..modem file so
it fails. The only workaround is to run "minicom -s" as root
to change the lock directory, but then other modem software
(such as ppp dialers) cannot know if the modem is being
used.
Comment 1 Jay Turner 1999-05-19 14:11:59 UTC 
Verified that in 6.0, /var/lock is indeed not world-writable and
therefore minicom does have problems creating the lock file.
Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 1999-05-19 16:34:59 UTC 
Fixed in dist-6.1 minicom-1.82-6.
Comment 3 Jay Turner 1999-05-27 14:15:59 UTC 
*** Bug 3087 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

the default perms on the minicom binary do not allow it to
create lockfiles in /var/lock since /var/lock is not world
writable +t.  5.2's minicom was set gid uucp as this would
allow it to create lock files in /var/lock

bad news: normal uses cannot launch minicom
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