Date: 30 May 2005 17:18:13 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Iain Dooley <mail@iaindooley.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using serial port as non-root user Message-ID: <44y89wl8fe.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <429B8BAA.6010209@iaindooley.com> References: <429B8BAA.6010209@iaindooley.com>
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Iain Dooley <mail@iaindooley.com> writes: > hello, i'm running: > > iain@piper> uname -a > FreeBSD piper.iaindooley.com 4.11-STABLE FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE #1: Mon May 30 19:43:26 GMT 2005 iain@piper.iaindooley.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PIPER i386 > > ls -la /dev | grep cuaa0 gives: > > crw-rw---- 1 uucp dialer 28, 128 May 30 21:49 cuaa0 > > i want to access cuaa0 using cutecom as a non-root user. so i tried: > > pw groupmod dialer -m iain > > now a groupshow gives me: > > iain@piper> pw groupshow dialer > dialer:*:68:iain > > but i still can't successfully open this file when i run cutecom as user 'iain'. if i run as user 'root' it works fine. > > what am i missing?? Did user 'iain' log out and back in again after the group file was changed?
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