Matthew Sackman writes: > ...there was a group dialout. What is this group doing there?
'dialout' is the group for the serial ports. > and under which circumstances would one ever need to be a member of it? To open a serial port. You don't have to be in dialout to run pon because pppd is setuid root. Thus you can independently control who can bring up a ppp connection and who can use the serial ports. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI
