[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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.
Dip is for an old package called 'dip'. It was sort of line 'pon' I think. Since the package has long since gone away I find it annoying we're still stuck with the group. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
