Quoting USM Bish ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Owner, group and permissions for the modem on my system > is the default installed by debian. Incidentally, debian > developers are very commited and mature and surely would > not goof up on these small aspects. > > The default setup is: > > crw-r----- 1 root dialout 4, 64 Sep 6 11:20 /dev/ttyS0
I think not. Here are som permissions on a machine that had potato installed on, yes, May 5th, and has no use for the serial ports: $ ls -l /dev/ttyS* /dev/psaux crw------- 1 root root 10, 1 May 5 22:48 /dev/psaux crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 64 May 5 22:48 /dev/ttyS0 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 65 May 5 22:48 /dev/ttyS1 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 66 May 5 22:48 /dev/ttyS2 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 67 May 5 22:48 /dev/ttyS3 $ ls -lu /dev/ttyS* /dev/psaux crw------- 1 root root 10, 1 Sep 8 14:12 /dev/psaux crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 64 May 5 22:48 /dev/ttyS0 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 65 May 5 22:48 /dev/ttyS1 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 66 May 5 22:48 /dev/ttyS2 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 67 May 5 22:48 /dev/ttyS3 > This works perfectly fine for me. This has been the set > up for all Linux boxes/ distros that I have used in the > last four years+. No failures. Well of course it will work if you're running it as root. That's not the point. What's more important is the *least* privilege required to make it work. > I enable user-dial through a program called "sudo". Give > it a try. For a stand-alone machine, you could dial with > root privileges easily with "su", and "sudo" may not be > needed at all. Bad Thing. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
