Re: Permissions on /dev/ttyS1 (Was: Re: debian 1.3.1 troubles)

To: Bob Hilliard <hilliard@flinet.com>
Cc: "Rev. Joseph Carter" <knghtbrd@earthlink.net>, debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Permissions on /dev/ttyS1 (Was: Re: debian 1.3.1 troubles)
From: john@dhh.gt.org
Date: 17 Apr 1998 14:56:36 -0500
Message-id: <87soncrzm3.fsf@hasler.dhh>
In-reply-to: Bob Hilliard's message of Fri, 17 Apr 1998 11:16:55 -0400 (EDT)
References: <m0yQCsp-0007xnC@bobspc>

Bob Hilliard writes:
> I have been troubled with intermittently changed permissions on
> /dev/ttyS1,...
> Why does pppd find it necessary to fiddle with these permissions
> anyway?

Security, I assume.  Perhaps you could have pppd talk to a symlink?
-- 
John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI


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