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Re: Permission Needed to Use ttyS1?



>>>>> "Lane" == Lane Lester <llester@mindspring.com> writes:

    Lane> When I tried wvdial for the first time (it was set up for me
    Lane> during the Dialup installation), it said, "Cannot open
    Lane> /dev/ttyS1: Permission denied."

You probably need to add your regular user to group 'dialout'.  If you
log in as 'foo', try 'usermod -G dialout foo'.  Then log out and log
back in.

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Colin Walters <levanti@verbum.org>
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