Re: Overcoming Debian(Linux?) paranoia - a gnome-ppp example

[terryc <terryc@woa.com.au>]

On 12/05/12 13:39, Richard Owlett wrote:

> I'm the _*ONLY*_ person to have physical access to the system.
> How do I force Debian to achieve functionality of CPM-80? [me date self

Basically you need to (as root) add your user to the dialup group.

grep dialout /etc/group

man addgrp --gid ??? your-user

Even on a dialup system, it is advisable not to break the basic system 
security. it isn't so long ago that dialout malware  was common (albeit 
no on *nix).

While you are at it, try
less /etc/group
and see what other groups you might also want to add your-user to,
e,g audio, cdrom, floppy, tape, sudo, scanner, saned.

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