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From: wleong@sfsu.edu (2-King)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: access to modem as non-root
Date: 13 Jan 1996 01:51:22 GMT
Organization: San Francisco State University
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To access modem as a normal user require the user to have the privilage
of a dialer. Add your user name to the "dialer" entry of file /etc/group.

In article <Pine.SUN.3.91.960112093202.13625A-100000@mazatlan.eng.uci.edu>,
   "Stanley K. Cheong" <scheong@ece.uci.edu> wrote:
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>Hi,
>
>I have FreeBSD 2.1R installed and it's been fun playing around with it.  
>However, I can only get access to the modem on COM1 as root.  What do I 
>need to do to get access to the modem as a normal user?
>
>I am new to Unix system admin.  Any help would be appreciated.
>
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>Stanley K. Cheong
>email     : scheong@ece.uci.edu
>work phone: (714) 707-2389
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