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From: Viktor Lakics <lakicsv@×××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [Re: [gentoo-dev] Permissions to dial out ?]
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 02:42:12
Message-Id: 20010711084121.21506.qmail@aw162.netaddress.usa.net
1 Thanks Jerry,
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3 I will look into it (the suid issue) tonight when I get home.
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5 BTW I use wvdial and kppp, both has this issue.
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7 Viktor
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11 Jerry A! <jerry@×××××××.org> wrote:
12 > On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 09:04:07AM +0100, Viktor Lakics wrote:
13 > : Hi All,
14 > :
15 > : How can I give access to normal users to use serial ports? (I want to use
16 a
17 > : modem on one of the serial ports and a palm cradle on the other)
18 > :
19 > : I added the user to the dialout group - no success to use the modem.
20 >
21 > That's the correct solution.
22 >
23 > : It says : ttyS0: Device or resource is busy (root can use the device
24 without
25 > : problems)
26 >
27 > Make sure that they're using /dev/ttyS0 (/dev/cua0 is owned by root).
28 > It sounds as though another program still has that device open. As a
29 > matter of debugging, you may want to try making the dialing program suid
30 > root and see if it works then.
31 >
32 > BTW, what program are you using?
33 >
34 > --Jerry
35 >
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Re: [Re: [gentoo-dev] Permissions to dial out ?] Jerry A! <jerry@×××××××.org>