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From: n138ct@tamuts.tamu.edu (Brent Burton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Protections on various files
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Date: 20 Mar 91 03:55:37 GMT
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I've been adding a few binaries to my system and stuffing them in
/usr/local/bin and their associated files in /usr/local/lib.
I created these directories with owner id=bin and group id = bin.
The files themselves are set as (bin,bin).

My specific question is concerning pcomm and zmodem programs.  Currently,
pcomm is (bin,bin) with rwsr-xr-x permissions.  I have the zmodem programs
(sz and rz) set at (bin,bin) with 755 permissions.  Now, when I try to
download a file from a host, the transfer aborts and in the case of pcomm's
xmodem protocol, I get the error "Can't create file blah_blah."
  If others are using this program, how do you have your files set?  Also,
with other binaries (such as gnuplot), what should the permissions be?

In general, when I add new programs to my system, is there an owner id and
a group id I should be setting them to?


thanks,

             +----------------------+--------------------------+
             | Brent P. Burton      | n138ct@tamuts.tamu.edu   |
             | Texas A&M University | Computer Science/Physics |
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