On 19 Sep 2001, Carel Fellinger wrote: > 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 >
A good suggestion and in fact I found that the permissions were crw-r----. Unfortunately, changing them to what they should be, as above, has made no difference. Trying to run minicom as user produces a message saying that it cannot open /dev/ttySO. I thought this might be because minicom is in the uucp group, but changing this to dialout makes no difference. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Debian GNU/Linux (Windows-free zone). For electronic books (Homeomythology and The Assassins of Alamut), skeptical essays, and over 130 book reviews, go to http://www.acampbell.org.uk/ Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. [Laurens van der Post]
