Re: [Re: [gentoo-dev] Permissions to dial out ?]

[Viktor Lakics <lakicsv@usa.net>]

Thanks Jerry,

I will look into it (the suid issue) tonight when I get home.

BTW I use wvdial and kppp, both has this issue.

Viktor



Jerry A! <jerry@thehutt.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 09:04:07AM +0100, Viktor Lakics wrote:
> : Hi All,
> : 
> : How can I give access to normal users to use serial ports? (I want to use
a
> : modem on one of the serial ports and a palm cradle on the other)
> : 
> : I added  the user to the dialout group - no success to use the modem.
> 
> That's the correct solution.
> 
> : It says : ttyS0: Device or resource is busy (root can use the device
without
> : problems)
> 
> Make sure that they're using /dev/ttyS0 (/dev/cua0 is owned by root).
> It sounds as though another program still has that device open.  As a
> matter of debugging, you may want to try making the dialing program suid
> root and see if it works then.
> 
> BTW, what program are you using?
> 
>         --Jerry
> 
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