On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, you wrote:
>
> 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.
>
Ahh..Ok. That'd do it. :-)
John
Won't make any difference, John. If you chmod a symbolic link, the link
still always shows 777 but the file or directory that is pointed to is
changed. He has to setuid to root pppd and any other intermediary
programs. (chmod +s pppd). Then it will work.
Tom
John Aldrich wrote:
>
> On Mon, 20
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
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/mo
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'
