Re: Minicom only works suid root -SOLVED

2001-09-20 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 19 Sep 2001, John Hasler wrote: > Anthony writes: > > I have no idea how all this happened, nor do I understand why /dev/ttyS0 > > had originally got incorrect permissions while /dev/ttyS1, etc, were > > correct. > > Pppd once had a bug that caused it to fail to restore the permissions on > the

Re: Minicom only works suid root -SOLVED

2001-09-19 Thread John Hasler
Anthony writes: > I have no idea how all this happened, nor do I understand why /dev/ttyS0 > had originally got incorrect permissions while /dev/ttyS1, etc, were > correct. Pppd once had a bug that caused it to fail to restore the permissions on the serial port. I thought it was fixed long ago, t

Re: Minicom only works suid root -SOLVED

2001-09-19 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 19 Sep 2001, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > On Wed, 2001-09-19 at 08:35, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 19 Sep 2001, Carel Fellinger wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 07:51:11AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > On 18 Sep 2001, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 2001-09-18 at 10:59

Re: Minicom only works suid root

2001-09-19 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 01:57:06PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 19 Sep 2001, Carel Fellinger wrote: ... > > group ownership: > > > > $ ls -l /dev/ttyS0 > > crw-rw1 root dialout4, 64 Jul 5 2000 /dev/ttyS0 ... > A good suggestion and in fact I found that the permiss

Re: Minicom only works suid root -SOLVED

2001-09-19 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Wed, 2001-09-19 at 08:35, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 19 Sep 2001, Carel Fellinger wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 07:51:11AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > On 18 Sep 2001, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2001-09-18 at 10:59, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > > I have to have m

Re: Minicom only works suid root -SOLVED

2001-09-19 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 19 Sep 2001, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 07:51:11AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 18 Sep 2001, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > > > On Tue, 2001-09-18 at 10:59, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > I have to have minicom setuid root, even though I have added myself to > > > >

Re: Minicom only works suid root

2001-09-19 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 19 Sep 2001, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 07:51:11AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 18 Sep 2001, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > > > On Tue, 2001-09-18 at 10:59, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > I have to have minicom setuid root, even though I have added myself to > > > >

Re: Minicom only works suid root

2001-09-19 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 07:51:11AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 18 Sep 2001, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > > On Tue, 2001-09-18 at 10:59, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > I have to have minicom setuid root, even though I have added myself to > > > the dialout group, which according to the man pag

Re: Minicom only works suid root

2001-09-19 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 18 Sep 2001, Michael Heldebrant wrote: > On Tue, 2001-09-18 at 10:59, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I have to have minicom setuid root, even though I have added myself to > > the dialout group, which according to the man page should allow access > > to serial port devices. Any suggestions for what

Re: Minicom only works suid root

2001-09-18 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Tue, 2001-09-18 at 10:59, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I have to have minicom setuid root, even though I have added myself to > the dialout group, which according to the man page should allow access > to serial port devices. Any suggestions for what's wrong? You need to add yourself to the dialout