Using serial port as non-root user
Lowell Gilbert
freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Mon May 30 14:18:15 PDT 2005
Iain Dooley <mail at iaindooley.com> writes:
> 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??
Did user 'iain' log out and back in again after the group file was changed?
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