Re: Minicom only works suid root -SOLVED
On 19 Sep 2001, John Hasler wrote:
> Anthony writes:
> > I have no idea how all this happened, nor do I understand why /dev/ttyS0
> > had originally got incorrect permissions while /dev/ttyS1, etc, were
> > correct.
>
> Pppd once had a bug that caused it to fail to restore the permissions on
> the serial port. I thought it was fixed long ago, though.
> --
> John Hasler
> john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
> Dancing Horse Hill
> Elmwood, WI
>
That would certainly explain it. I shall look out for it in future.
Anthony
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