From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jul 9 10:57:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A23D37B401 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 10:57:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from arg1.demon.co.uk (arg1.demon.co.uk [62.49.12.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0D3D43E42 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 10:57:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from arg-bsd@arg1.demon.co.uk) Received: by arg1.demon.co.uk (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 968189B1A; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 18:57:43 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arg1.demon.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9388F5D0C; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 18:57:43 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 18:57:43 +0100 (BST) From: Andrew Gordon X-X-Sender: To: Cc: Subject: Re: PPI user rights In-Reply-To: <200207090237.g692b1h15131@engmail.uwaterloo.ca> Message-ID: <20020709185541.V25196-100000@server.arg.sj.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 9 Jul 2002 jdhar@engmail.uwaterloo.ca wrote: > I have a question regarding the rights to access the PPI 'geek' > interface. As far as i know, you need to be root to access this > device. Is there any way for a non-priveladged user to access this > besides setting the user id on the binary? The Have you tried simply chmod or chown on /dev/ppi0 ? I can't see anything in the code that makes it superuser only, but the default for /dev/ppi0 is 600, root:wheel. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message