Re: [gentoo-dev] Permissions to dial out ?

[Jerry A!]

On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 09:04:07AM +0100, Viktor Lakics wrote:
: Hi All,
: 
: How can I give access to normal users to use serial ports? (I want to use a
: modem on one of the serial ports and a palm cradle on the other)
: 
: I added  the user to the dialout group - no success to use the modem.

That's the correct solution.

: It says : ttyS0: Device or resource is busy (root can use the device without
: problems)

Make sure that they're using /dev/ttyS0 (/dev/cua0 is owned by root).
It sounds as though another program still has that device open.  As a
matter of debugging, you may want to try making the dialing program suid
root and see if it works then.

BTW, what program are you using?

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