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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.ac.net!news1.erols.com!newsmaster@erols.com From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Permission denied on /dev/cuaa1 using Kermit Date: Sun, 26 May 1996 07:49:46 -0700 Organization: Erols Internet Services Lines: 30 Message-ID: <31A86F8A.1B04@www.play-hookey.com> References: <rllDrx0tB.HsM@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) Richard L. Lamb wrote: > > I feel really silly having to ask this, but can't figure it out myself. > > I just installed Kermit from the ports collection, but when I try to use > it I get "/dev/cuaa1: Permission denied" unless I'm logged in as root. > The permissions are: > > crw-rw---- 1 uucp dialer /dev/cuaa1 > -r-xr-sr-x 1 bin dialer /usr/local/bin/kermit > > Now, it's a single user system, so I can work around it by changing cuaa1 > to mode 666, but is that the "right" way? And why doesn't the setgid > dialer on kermit allow use of the serial port? > There's probably a dozen or more ways to do this, but here's one, anyway: Edit the /etc/group file, and add your userid to the dialer group. This group has no names in my file, because my site is always up and connected, by running pppd from rc.local. If you have multiple userids for some reason, put them all in the dialer group as a comma-separated list. When you reboot, you should have group access to all dialer devices and operations. Hope it helps, Ken