capi20 permissions

Lars Immisch <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.isdn.i4l.user
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
Hi,

Tobias Powalowski asked me it is a bug that capi related tools can seemingly only be started as root.

I have the same (cosmetic) problem, here is my current analysis.

The short answer is: no, it's not a bug, it's an installation/packaging issue. The capi tools can be run as any user or group.

mISDNcapid needs access to a shared POSIX semaphore and shared memory in /dev/shm/. It will open the sempahore/shared mem with RW access to the user/group it is running as. Also, it needs to be able to write to /var/run/mISDNcapid.

When these conditions are met, the capi user processes can be run under the same user or group.

- Lars

P.S. On my (Debian) system, /dev/shm is not writable by users by default.
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