Re: need help with modem

[Robert Helmer <rhelmer@valuestar.com>]

Jason,

You can change the permissions on the device
( /dev/ttyS0 or whatever ) make it writable by
the dialout group, and put the users who can use
the modem in the dialout group.

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ls -al /dev/ttyS0
crw-rw----    1 root     dialout    4,  64 Nov 27 02:44 /dev/ttyS0
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If you want to let users start the PPP daemon, you can make it
be setuid root. There is probably a more secure way to do this.

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ls -al /usr/sbin/pppd
-rwsr-x---    1 root     dialout        179664 Oct 25 06:41
/usr/sbin/pppd
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bye,
rob


Jason Winters wrote:

> is there a way to let any user who wants to use the modem to let them?