On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 11:11:05AM -0500, Joe Bouchard wrote: > On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 04:19:59PM +0000, Robert Helmer wrote: > > You can change the permissions on the device > > ( /dev/ttyS0 or whatever ) make it writable by > > the dialout group, and put the users who can use > > the modem in the dialout group. > > Some of us use the "dip" group instead of "dialout". What's the > difference?
dip used to be the program ages ago that you setup a SLIP or PPP dial up link with. SLIP fell into disuse and so did dip. I am supposing that you are still using some legacy group name related to the dip program. Makes no difference in the end. -- William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada A 'box' is something that accomplishes a task -- you feed in input and out comes the output, just as God and Larry Wall intended. -- brian moore