vgetty and uid/gid/mode?

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hi,

On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 09:54:35AM +0200, Marc SCHAEFER wrote:
> Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de> wrote:
> > ... looking through the code, I'm not sure, but it should be something
> > like "phone_owner <username>".
> 
> Something which is on my TODO list is to make so that vgetty runs as
> a non priviledged user. After all, as soon as the modem device is opened,
> you don't need root. And complex beasts like mvm have to be run as root
> for now, and this is bad (it's not sufficient to run mvm not as root
> if the file access in vgetty is done as root anyway).

Well, it would mean that the "voice-spool-in" directory would have to be
writeable by that user ID, and that you can't chown() the incoming voice
files away, but besides that, I think this would be a good idea.

Mgetty doesn't do any overly complicated things, so I don't think a uid 
change is a "must" here, but if you feel like it, please tell me so.

gert
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