Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 21:54:50 +0000 From: Iain Dooley <mail@iaindooley.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Using serial port as non-root user Message-ID: <429B8BAA.6010209@iaindooley.com>
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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?? cheers iain
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