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Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 21:54:50 +0000
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Subject: Using serial port as non-root user
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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