On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 09:29:13PM +0000, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote: > Well, I managed to get the root user to query the modem. kppp started > to work once I issued > ln -f /dev/ttyS4 /dev/modem > > But I would rather not have to log on the internet as a root user. It > wont go from my regular user account. I did use kuser to add to ip > and dialout. kppp just gives me "unable to open modem," but > wvdialconf is more revealing, it says > > attempting /dev/ttyS4, /dev/modem is a link to it > /dev/ttyS4 permission denied. > > now, how can this be, shouldm't permission have been granted when I > added the user to the dip and dialout group? How can I go about > fixing this one?!
Sounds like you need to log out and log in again. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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