Re: Minicom only works suid root
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 07:51:11AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 18 Sep 2001, Michael Heldebrant wrote:
> > On Tue, 2001-09-18 at 10:59, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > > I have to have minicom setuid root, even though I have added myself to
> > > the dialout group, which according to the man page should allow access
> > > to serial port devices. Any suggestions for what's wrong?
> >
> > You need to add yourself to the dialout group as root and then relogin.
> > That should solve your problem.
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> If you read my original post you will see I have already done this; in
> fact, I've been added to the dialout group for a long time.
The next logical step would be to check the device files for proper
group ownership:
$ ls -l /dev/ttyS0
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 64 Jul 5 2000 /dev/ttyS0
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groetjes, carel
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