On Fri, Sep 04, 1998 at 09:14:19AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > *- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "Re: Debian and Reh Hat Questions" > | Yes. If the user is part of the group which owns the dial out devices > | (with Debian, that's group "dialout"). > > Actually it is the dip group. All the ppp and chatscript config and > scripts need to be owned root.dip and pppd needs to be suid root(this is > the default I think).
The serial devices are group dialout: penguin ray 16:17 /dev> ./MAKEDEV -n ttyS1 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 65 for ttyS1 as documented in /usr/doc/makedev/README.Debian.gz; I'm not sure what group dip is for. Ray -- POPULATION EXPLOSION Unique in human experience, an event which happened yesterday but which everyone swears won't happen until tomorrow. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
