Subj : Re: Install on Linux
To   : Bradley D. Thornton
From : Todd Yatzook
Date : Sat Aug 31 2019 11:07 am

On 31 Aug 2019, Bradley D. Thornton said the following...

BD> Should I be creating an account on the system for Mystic to run under or
BD> install as root?

I read the couple replies after this, and didn't know that Mystic switches to
the owner. BUT, on some installs of Linux, running sudo in a bash script or
something similar to launch on startup can be a little complicated, with my
experience having to pipe the password in plain text. An RPi with Raspbian
will happily let you run sudo without a password in a terminal or bash
script; Mint won't, for example.

What I do is install with sudo, then chown and chmod the Mystic directory
recursively:

chown -R maskreet:maskreet /mystic
chmod -R 755 /mystic

Then just run:

setcap 'cap_net_bind_service=+ep' /mystic/mis

to allow non-su to run on ports lower than 1024 for that particular program,
MIS.

Then you never have to deal with sudo to run Mystic again.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/03/02 (Linux/64)
* Origin: http://www.throwbackbbs.com -\- meriden, ct -\- (1:142/799)

You are viewing proxied material from cvs.synchro.net. The copyright of proxied material belongs to its original authors. Any comments or complaints in relation to proxied material should be directed to the original authors of the content concerned. Please see the disclaimer for more details.