Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Problems with netatalk+asun 18 on Solaris 2.5.2
From: Sak Wathanasin (sw@nan.co.uk)
Date: Thu Jan 08 1998 - 18:19:57 EST
In reply to Edan Idzerda's message of the 07/01/98 at 21:24 -0500,
> Are you sure that nbp_lookup and other friends don't need to be suid root?
I'm not at all sure; in fact, setting pap, papstatus and nbplkup to suid root
lets me print (:-). But I'm not sure why - is it /dev/ddp? Linux doesn't need
it, and I'm not yet Solaris-savvy. I'm generally unhappy about suid root unless
it's really unnecessary.
Sak Wathanasin
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