Using serial port as non-root user
Iain Dooley
mail at iaindooley.com
Mon May 30 04:45:06 PDT 2005
hello, i'm running:
iain at piper> uname -a
FreeBSD piper.iaindooley.com 4.11-STABLE FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE #1: Mon May 30 19:43:26 GMT 2005 iain at 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 at 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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