Re: Debian and Reh Hat Questions

["Jens B. Jorgensen" <jjorgens@bdsinc.com>]

jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 04, 1998 at 09:14:19AM -0500, servis@purdue.edu wrote:
> > *- jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl wrote about "Re: Debian and Reh Hat Questions"
> > | Yes. If the user is part of the group which owns the dial out devices
> > | (with Debian, that's group "dialout").
> >
> > Actually it is the dip group.  All the ppp and chatscript config and
> > scripts need to be owned root.dip and pppd needs to be suid root(this is
> > the default I think).
>
> The serial devices are group dialout:
> penguin ray 16:17 /dev> ./MAKEDEV -n ttyS1
> crw-rw----   1 root     dialout    4,  65 for ttyS1
> as documented in /usr/doc/makedev/README.Debian.gz; I'm not sure what group
> dip is for.

Dip is for an old package called 'dip'. It was sort of line 'pon' I think. Since the
package has long since gone away I find it annoying we're still stuck with the group.

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Jens B. Jorgensen
jjorgens@bdsinc.com