Re: [Sheflug] Permissions

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

Hello there

On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Martin P Holland wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Harvey Kelly wrote:
> 
> >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? 
> 
> Put
> 
> ttyS1
> 
> on a line by itself in /etc/ppp/options. 
> 
> and chmod +s /usr/sbin/pppd
> 
> That's all you need to do. You don't have to (and shouldn't) change the
> permissions on /dev/ttyS1 or /etc/ppp/chap-secrets from 0600.
> 

I did that, but still "Cannot open /dev/ttyS1: Permission denied"

Thanks

Harvey 


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