Re: modem port root only

[Bob Clark <rlclark@jane.penn.com>]

Ed Down wrote:
> 
> I'm sure this was answered sometime recently, but can't find it. I've
> added the user to the dialout group, but still get /dev/ttyS1 - Permission
> denied when trying to use the modem as a user. Do I need to change more
> groups (tty, etc) - if so, which ones
> 
> Ed
> 

Does /dev/ttyS1 have group rw permissions and is the group ownership set
to dialout?

bash> ls -l /dev/ttyS1
crw-rw----   1 root     dialout    4,  65 Feb 20 10:06 /dev/ttyS1

--Bob


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