Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: >On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Paolo Falcone wrote: > >> I tried adding my user account to group uucp, and it somehow solved it. > >Wow, that's hella-counter-intuitive. Is this a bug? (Though my gut >feeling says if I need to ask, it probably is)
Not a bug nor counter-intuitive, actually :) If you'll check the properties of minicom via ls -l, you'll notice that minicom is owned by user root and group uucp. I forgot what reason this is so (is minicom using UUCP instead of standard TCP/IP? I think so...) You can circumvent adding your account to the group uucp by changing the perms of /dev/ttyS1 to 666, but that's counter to the Debian policy (as well as it gives R/W access to the ttyS1 device to all users...). So stick with the group scheme that Debian implements. -->paolo Paolo Falcone __________________________________ www.edsamail.com
