Re: need help with modem

1999-12-12 Thread John Hasler
Joe Bouchard writes: > Some of us use the "dip" group instead of "dialout". What's the > difference? dip is the group that pppd and the ppp files belong to. dialout is the group that the serial ports belong to. Membership in the dip group is sufficient to allow users to use ppp as long as the p

Re: need help with modem

1999-12-12 Thread William Burrow
On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 11:11:05AM -0500, Joe Bouchard wrote: > On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 04:19:59PM +, Robert Helmer wrote: > > You can change the permissions on the device > > ( /dev/ttyS0 or whatever ) make it writable by > > the dialout group, and put the users who can use > > the modem in th

Re: need help with modem

1999-12-12 Thread Joe Bouchard
On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 04:19:59PM +, Robert Helmer wrote: > Jason, > > You can change the permissions on the device > ( /dev/ttyS0 or whatever ) make it writable by > the dialout group, and put the users who can use > the modem in the dialout group. Some of us use the "dip" group instead of

Re: need help with modem

1999-12-10 Thread Robert Helmer
Jason, You can change the permissions on the device ( /dev/ttyS0 or whatever ) make it writable by the dialout group, and put the users who can use the modem in the dialout group. --- ls -al /dev/ttyS0 crw-rw1 root dialout4, 64 Nov 27 02:44 /dev/ttyS0 If you want to let use

need help with modem

1999-12-10 Thread Jason Winters
is there a way to let any user who wants to use the modem to let them?