On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 07:51:11AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 18 Sep 2001, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > > On Tue, 2001-09-18 at 10:59, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > I have to have minicom setuid root, even though I have added myself to > > > the dialout group, which according to the man page should allow access > > > to serial port devices. Any suggestions for what's wrong? > > > > You need to add yourself to the dialout group as root and then relogin. > > That should solve your problem. ... > If you read my original post you will see I have already done this; in > fact, I've been added to the dialout group for a long time.
The next logical step would be to check the device files for proper group ownership: $ ls -l /dev/ttyS0 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 64 Jul 5 2000 /dev/ttyS0 -- groetjes, carel