[Sheflug] Re: Permissions

[Harvey Kelly <nospam [at] kelly.uklinux.net>]

Hello again,

On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Harvey Kelly wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> Another easy-peasy one for you all...
> 
> I'm using wvdial to dial-up at the moment, but how do alter the
> permissions so you don't have to "su root"?  I do  chmod a+rw
> /dev/ttyS1 everytime at the moment.  And to /etc/ppp/chap-secrets &
> pap-secrets too? 
> 

Is it chmod a+rwx /dev/ttyS1? And the same to /etc/ppp/*********?

God bless the Linux Newbie Guide.

You will correct me if this is wrong yeah?

Thanks

Harvey

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