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...check it in? I guess I asked this question already at least twice, but would it hurt OpenSSH badly if it would drop the tests for uid == 0 and instead call a function which checks the current account for being a privilieged account? This could be very simple on most UNIX derivates like this: int privileged_user () { return geteuid () == 0; } and much more complicated on systems needing that. On Cygwin we could check for the SE_CREATE_TOKEN_NAME privilege in the current access token on NT and just return 1 on 9x systems. The advantage would be that we could remove lots of #ifdef stuff which is just...

...argument Check your serial port and settings Exiting with status SYNC_ERROR_BIND Finished I searched on the net, and it would seem that this is because of a permissions problem with the /dev/pilot files. The advice I am following is here: http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Running_JPilot_as_a_non-privileged_user.html On this page the writer says that there are two ways to solve the problem - make the user the owner of the device, or make the device world writable. The author of the page says "making files (especially devices) world-writable should be avoided", but I think I'm not bother...