And what is the response now? You should be using cua01 not tty01.
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 06:47:18AM -0600, fred wrote: > I restored the dialer group to /dev/tty01 and added the user to the > dialer group as Nick suggested. It still doesn't work but the > response is different now. I believe there is a cable problem now. > The cable works with a Sun Ultra 10 but not with the PC running > openbsd. > > Thank you for the help. > > Nick Holland wrote: > >On 07/12/10 19:32, patrick keshishian wrote: > >>On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 2:58 PM, fred <f...@blakemfg.com> wrote: > >>>Hello, > >>> > >>>A user needs to connect to external equipment using tip and a serial port. > >>> > >>>I created an /etc/remote file: > >>>snake:br=9600:dv=/dev/tty01:hf:nb:pa=none > >>> > >>>The group associated with /dev/tty01 was changed from dialer to one that > >>>includes the user: > >>>$ls -l /dev/tty01 > >>>crw-rw---- 1 uucp wheel 8, 1 Feb 7 09:38 /dev/tty01 > >>so, the user is already in wheel group. Revert above change. Enable > >>sudo (if not already done so) for users in group wheel. > >> > >>$ sudo -u uucp tip snake > >> > >>--patrick > > > >uh...if all else fails, do it as root? I think we'd prefer to avoid > >that, unless really a root-like activity. > > > >The "dialer" group is set up just for this purpose. > > > >The problem with changing the ownership (or group) of a device file is > >the next upgrade will overwrite your ownership change. Ask me how I > >know. Better idea, don't -- just use your imagination. > > > >I'm not sure why you didn't just add that user to group "dialer", but it > >is quite straight forward: > > > >/home/nick $ grep nick /etc/group > >wheel:*:0:root,nick > >wsrc:*:9:nick > >dialer:*:117:nick > >nick:*:1000: > > > >and...I (as "nick") have no trouble using my serial port without using > >sudo and without changing device file ownership. > > > >You will probably want to create a file /var/log/aculog which is > >writable by group "dialer", as well... Squishes an error message, and > >provides some useful logging, too. > > > >Nick.
