Using serial port as non-root user

Iain Dooley mail at iaindooley.com
Mon May 30 15:24:31 PDT 2005



Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> 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?

nope!! that must be it. thanks very much.

iain


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