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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