From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 18 18:53:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from homer.futureuse.net (c35884.randw1.nsw.optusnet.com.au [203.164.229.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 94A1237B402 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 18:53:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 52890 invoked from network); 19 Feb 2002 02:49:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO futureuse.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 19 Feb 2002 02:49:19 -0000 Received: from 203.11.225.5 (proxying for 10.140.148.30) (SquirrelMail authenticated user fbsdlist) by www.futureuse.net with HTTP; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 13:49:19 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <36022.203.11.225.5.1014086959.squirrel@www.futureuse.net> Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 13:49:19 +1100 (EST) Subject: User access to serial port? yaps From: "Aaron Hill" To: X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.4) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I've recently installed the yaps port and have it sending messages successfully via a modem. However it only works for the root user - not any standard user accounts. Here's the special file for the serial port the modem connects to ... crw-rw---- 1 uucp dialer 28, 129 Feb 19 13:31 /dev/cuaa1 ... and it is this file that yaps refers to for access to the modem. Here's the yaps executable ... -rwx--s--x 1 bin dialer 80212 Feb 18 15:45 /usr/local/bin/yaps So from that any user *should* have access to the serial port via the yaps program. I've tried changing the permission of the serial port file to ... crw-rw-rw- 1 uucp dialer 28, 129 Feb 19 13:31 /dev/cuaa1 ... just as a test but it didn't help. Who can help me out here? Where else does FreeBSD control access to the serial ports? FYI - The error yaps gives a user account is ... Unable to dial Telstra ... and I'm pretty sure the problem isn't an internal yaps permission issue. Thanks Aaron Hill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message