Fw: Lost permissions on /dev/modem?!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Januski" <kenjanuski@mindspring.com>
To: "David Wright" <d.wright@open.ac.uk>
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 1:33 PM
Subject: Re: Lost permissions on /dev/modem?!
> Thanks David,
>
> I took a look at permissions and they are now world writeable for
> /dev/modem. I'm not sure if this was the case when I first sent off
message.
> With them being world writeable I find that root can use wvdial
successfully
> but I can't. Earlier root got same error message about permission denied.
> Yet I've always used wvdial as myself. I'm still getting "cannot open
> /dev/modem: permission denied." Any other thoughts?
>
> Ken
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Wright" <d.wright@open.ac.uk>
> To: "Ken Januski" <kenjanuski@mindspring.com>
> Cc: "Debian" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 11:39 AM
> Subject: Re: Lost permissions on /dev/modem?!
>
>
> > Quoting Ken Januski (kenjanuski@mindspring.com):
> >
> > > Sorry to be sending this via Outlook but all of a sudden I can't use
> wvdial
> > > in Debian. It's been working successfully for me for about 4 months.
> Then
> > > this morning I typed in: wvdial, and got this response:
> > >
> > > "Cannot open /dev/modem : permission denied".
> >
> > This comes up regularly. For reasons best known to itself, wvdial
> > needs group write permission for the modem. It usually gets this ok,
> > but not if it killed the previous pppd session too quickly for pppd
> > to restore the permissions (bug #85709).
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
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