I restored the dialer group to /dev/tty01 and added the user to the
dialer group as Nick suggested. It still doesn't work but the response
is different now. I believe there is a cable problem now. The cable
works with a Sun Ultra 10 but not with the PC running openbsd.
Thank you for the help.
Nick Holland wrote:
On 07/12/10 19:32, patrick keshishian wrote:
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 2:58 PM, fred <f...@blakemfg.com> wrote:
Hello,
A user needs to connect to external equipment using tip and a serial port.
I created an /etc/remote file:
snake:br=9600:dv=/dev/tty01:hf:nb:pa=none
The group associated with /dev/tty01 was changed from dialer to one that
includes the user:
$ls -l /dev/tty01
crw-rw---- 1 uucp wheel 8, 1 Feb 7 09:38 /dev/tty01
so, the user is already in wheel group. Revert above change. Enable
sudo (if not already done so) for users in group wheel.
$ sudo -u uucp tip snake
--patrick
uh...if all else fails, do it as root? I think we'd prefer to avoid
that, unless really a root-like activity.
The "dialer" group is set up just for this purpose.
The problem with changing the ownership (or group) of a device file is
the next upgrade will overwrite your ownership change. Ask me how I
know. Better idea, don't -- just use your imagination.
I'm not sure why you didn't just add that user to group "dialer", but it
is quite straight forward:
/home/nick $ grep nick /etc/group
wheel:*:0:root,nick
wsrc:*:9:nick
dialer:*:117:nick
nick:*:1000:
and...I (as "nick") have no trouble using my serial port without using
sudo and without changing device file ownership.
You will probably want to create a file /var/log/aculog which is
writable by group "dialer", as well... Squishes an error message, and
provides some useful logging, too.
Nick.
