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From: Tim Hedger <hedger@globalnet.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Using kermit when not logged in as root
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 15:26:30 +0000
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Frank da Cruz wrote:
> : My modem is in group uucp:
> : [root@th1 /var]# ls -l /dev/modem
> : lrwxrwxrwx 1 root uucp 4 Dec 29 20:23 /dev/modem -> cua0
> :
> But /dev/modem is a symlink. What about /dev/cua0?
>
> - Frank
Thanks Frank.
The permissions on /dev/cua0 were:
[root@th1 /dev]# ls -l cua0
crw-r----- 1 root uucp 5, 64 Jan 7 15:11 cua0
I found I had to change them to:
[root@th1 /dev]# ls -l cua0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root uucp 5, 64 Jan 7 15:13 cua0
to make it work. (I tried just g+w first, but this didn't make any difference).
Whilst I'm happy that this now works, I'm still not clear how minicom (which
worked all along under this non-root user) works? (given that it has the same
permissions as the kermit executable, and it too uses /dev/modem)
--
Tim Hedger