Re: Debian and Reh Hat Questions
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.
Ray
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