[TAG] [keesan at grex.cyberspace.org: Re: lpr works for user not root in Basiclinux 2.1]

[Ben Okopnik]

----- Forwarded message from Sindi Keesan <keesan at grex.cyberspace.org> -----

Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:24:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sindi Keesan <keesan at grex.cyberspace.org>
To: TAG <tag at lists.linuxgazette.net>
To: Ben Okopnik <ben at linuxgazette.net>
Subject: Re: [TAG] lpr works for user not root in Basiclinux 2.1
Sender: Sindi Keesan <keesan at cyberspace.org>

A strange problem.  I dial as user and it works, then next time I don't 
have permission to use /dev/ttyS1.  This has happened repeatedly.  I 
change to o+rw and it changes itself back.  I changed all tty* to o+rw and 
today I have again:

ttyS1  crw-r--r--
ttyp0  crw-------
ttyp1  crw--w--w-

They are all different, even stranger.  They used to be all other rw.
The other tty's (which I did not use as user) are unchanged (rw).

I could set rc.S or something to redo the permissions on these 
three files each time I boot, but what could be causing this?

The author of svgalib helped me to make the module which lets me now use 
zgv and links2 non-suid.  Kernel 2.4 was missing two files which were 
non-essential so we commented them out.

Thanks for any ideas, and for all previous help.

Sindi Keesan

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