John Aldrich wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> > I started out using RedHat linux about a year ago, then tried SuSE
> > linux, and now I've recently loaded Mandrake 7.0. I've found when I
> > used SuSE, I had no problem using minicom as 'user', but with both
> > RedHat & now Mandrake, I'm denied permission to /dev/modem when I try to
> > start the program. I've tried chmod 755 /dev/modem, but I still can't
> > access the program unless I'm logged on as root. Is this a security
> > setting with RedHat/Mandrake distribs? And how can I give permission to
> > users to access minicom?
> >
> What's /dev/modem symlinked to? Do a chmod 755 on that dev and that *should*
> fix it.
> John
Thank you for the quick answer, however I was just enlightened to change the
permissions on /usr/bin/minicom and that did the trick. I will keep that in
mind for the future though.
Michael Holt
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