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From: jmsellens@watdragon.waterloo.edu (John M. Sellens)
Subject: ru-cap2/ethertalk and ethertalk access for ordinary users?
Message-ID: <1991Mar14.223538.16486@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1991 22:35:38 GMT
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I installed ru-cap2 and enet on a Sun4.  /dev/enet* are mode 644.
atlook can't be run by an ordinary user:

% atlook
abInit: [ddp:   0.02, 33], [GW:   0.02, 159] starting
open: /dev/enetXX: Permission denied
NBPInit: DDPOpenSocket error 13
Looking for =:=@* ...
NBP nbpFcn: nbpInit not called

which isn't too surprising.

I will assume that others have seen this.  Any opinions on the best
way to work with it?  Should /dev/enet* be mode 666 so that J. Average
User can read and write Ethertalk packets (just as is allowed with IP
packets)?  Should things like atlook be setgid to a group with access
to /dev/enet*?  Or what?  What about etherstat?  Should the average user
be allowed to run that?  I couldn't see anything relevant to this
in the READMEs.

Much obliged for any information.

John Sellens
U of Waterloo
jmsellens@dragon.waterloo.edu