Stephen Hargrove wrote:
> I sent this message out about a month ago and never got a response. I
> figure it's worth another shot.
> --
> steve
>
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>
> Subject: Can't open /dev/modem
> Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 22:04:17 -0600
> From: "Stephen E. Hargrove" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: redhat-list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> everything was working fine, then i opened a webpage that was apparently
> quite a resource hog (i watched it eat /all/ of my available ram). my
> system hung, and i was forced to power off. now, when i fire up
> gnome-ppp, pppd dies with the following message in my log file:
>
> Nov 6 21:11:26 calypso pppd[1084]: Failed to open /dev/modem:
> Permission denied
>
> here's the ls on /dev/modem and /dev/ttyS2:
>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Nov 6 21:04 /dev/modem ->
> /dev/ttyS2
> crwSr-Sr-- 1 root tty 4, 66 Nov 6 21:12 /dev/ttyS2
>
> what do i need to do to allow me to again gain access to /dev/modem
> without su root?
>
Don't you have to have pppd set to suid root if you are going to start it as
a user?
Bret
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