Re: can't play music cd
Matthew Sackman writes:
> ...there was a group dialout. What is this group doing there?
'dialout' is the group for the serial ports.
> and under which circumstances would one ever need to be a member of it?
To open a serial port. You don't have to be in dialout to run pon because
pppd is setuid root. Thus you can independently control who can bring up a
ppp connection and who can use the serial ports.
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John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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