On Tuesday 17 May 2005 10:36, David Leggett wrote: > On Tuesday 17 May 2005 07:27, David Baron wrote: > > efax/efax-gtk will fail to open the modem unless run with root > > privileges. A bit heavy for this, is it not? > > What might I have done wrong? > > Try adding your user to teh group "dialout" Thought of that. User is in both "fax" and "dialout" groups.