Re: dial-up problems as user
On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 16:34, Gabrile-Lucia Loch wrote:
> I have Debian 2.2r2 instaled on my machine as workstation.
> My connection to internet is dial-up to IP and I set it up with wvdial.
> It work fine as root.
> As user I always get the message:
> -> Cannot open /dev/ttyS0: Permission denied
> user belong already to dialout group as well to tty, mail, news, dip.
> So it should work say the book. What am I missing?
> Can anybody help me, please. Thank you.
What group/user does the speciial device /dev/ttyS0 belong to?
Is it readable and writable for them?
Alternatively, has the executable /usr/sbin/pppd the sticky bit like
this:
-rwsr-xr-- 1 root dip 230604 10. Dez 12:35 /usr/sbin/pppd
Bye, Steffen
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