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diff --git a/README.customs b/README.customs index 9ad21f6..1976943 100644 --- a/README.customs +++ b/README.customs @@ -56,6 +56,28 @@ See the documentation for Customs for information on starting and configuring Customs. +INVOKING CUSTOMS-IZED GNU MAKE +----------------------------- + +One thing you should be aware of is that the default build environment +for Customs requires root permissions. Practically, this means that GNU +make must be installed setuid root to use Customs. + +If you don't want to do this, you can build Customs such that root +permissions are not necessary. Andreas Stolcke <stolcke@speech.sri.com> +writes: + + > pmake, gnumake or any other customs client program is not required to + > be suid root if customs was compiled WITHOUT the USE_RESERVED_PORTS + > option in customs/config.h. Make sure the "customs" service in + > /etc/services is defined accordingly (port 8231 instead of 1001). + + > Not using USE_RESERVED_PORTS means that a user with programming + > skills could impersonate another user by writing a fake customs + > client that pretends to be someone other than himself. See the + > discussion in etc/SECURITY. + + PROBLEMS -------- |