Re: Minicom problem

[Alan James <alan@tomun.org>]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 05:25:06AM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:
> I can run and dail and otherwise use minicom as root, but if I try as a
> regular user, I get
> 
> minicom: cannot open /dev/ttyS1: Permission denied
> 
> ls /dev/ttyS1 results in...
> 
> crw-r-----    1 root     dialout    4,  65 Feb 20 05:21 ttyS1
> 
> I'm a member of the dialout group, however.

you sure ? "groups" says dialout ? you logged back in after adding yourself
to the group ?
 
> Changing group permissions on ttyS1 results in similar futility.
> 
> WTF?

is minicom trying to open the port for read and write access ?
try "chmod g+w /dev/ttyS1"

Al.