Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 08:34:05 +0000 From: Iain Dooley <mail@iaindooley.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using serial port as non-root user Message-ID: <429C217D.3020300@iaindooley.com> In-Reply-To: <44y89wl8fe.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <429B8BAA.6010209@iaindooley.com> <44y89wl8fe.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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Lowell Gilbert wrote: > 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? nope!! that must be it. thanks very much. iain
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