On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Adalberto da Silva wrote:
> I'm trying to set my modem under Linux. I've made a few tests as root
> with minicom and it's working fine for AT commands and for dialing and
> transferring files with zmodem protocol.
>
> But it reffuses to work with common users and gives me this message
> when a try to run minicom:
>
> > minicom: cannot open /dev/cua2: Permission denied
>
> With ls -l cua* I get:
>
> > crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 5, 64 Jan 18 1997 cua0
> > crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 5, 65 Jan 18 1997 cua1
> > crwxrw---- 1 root dialout 5, 66 Nov 25 00:57 cua2
> > crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 5, 67 Jan 18 1997 cua3
>
> How can I enable an user to access /dev/cua2? Is it just enable
> write-read-execution for all users? Is this a secure option (ok, I'm on
> a stand-alone linux box but ...)?
1. put users who need to run minicom into the "dialout" group. edit
/etc/groups and add usernames to the "dialout::20:" line.
use the 'vigr' command to edit /etc/groups. it locks the file so that
it can't be written to by anything else. probably irrelevant on a
one-sysadmin machine, but it's a good habit to get into. you should
run 'vipw' whenever you edit the /etc/passwd file for the same reason.
remember to set your EDITOR env variable before you run vigr otherwise
you'll get the ae editor. (i consider this to be a bug - it violates
the principle of least surprise - but other debian developers
disagree). e.g.
export EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi
or
export EDITOR=/usr/bin/joe
or whatever your favourite editor is.
2. don't use /dev/cua* devices. ever. they are obsolete and have been
obsolete for well over a year...they only exist for compatibility with
ancient software which hasn't been modified to use the ttyS devices.
use /dev/ttyS* instead.
this is important. you'll run into extremely annoying and frustrating
device locking problems if you use the cua devices.
craig
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