Bidirectional tty port for 386ix

[Tin Le]

In article <12.26746 at infoserv.com> fiasco at infoserv.com (Rich Gircys) writes:
> .............
>o dial-out works OK as long as there's no getty on the line
>
>o however, as soon as a getty is started on that line, a dial-out attempt
>  (Uutry) will fail because the getty changes the /dev/tty permissions; Uutry
>  fails errno=13 (permissions problem)

  You need to use /usr/lib/uucp/uugetty.  That version of getty will leave
  the port under uucp ownership (and work better too with cu/uucico).

>
>I have tried making uucico setuid root (which usually solves all permission
>problems) but the failure is the same.

  Don't do that.  It'll just open up one more security hole in your system.

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