From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 21 22:34:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bom1.vsnl.net.in (giasbm01.vsnl.net.in [202.54.1.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 176F437B422 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 22:34:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebsd.kal.co.in (unknown [61.1.238.73]) by bom1.vsnl.net.in (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1C3414A52 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 11:04:15 +0530 (IST) Received: from giasbm01.vsnl.net.in (localhost.kal.co.in [127.0.0.1]) by freebsd.kal.co.in (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA00454 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 11:00:23 +0530 (IST) (envelope-from klak@giasbm01.vsnl.net.in) Message-ID: <39A20FEF.C559D94C@giasbm01.vsnl.net.in> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 11:00:23 +0530 From: "Khuzaima A. Lakdawala" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Serial port permissions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have an application which uses the serial port. It works fine when run by root but if run by any other user it complains about the port being "in use". The permissions of the device in question are: crw-rw---- 1 uucp dialer 28, 129 Aug 22 10:13 /dev/cuaa1 Adding the non-root user to the "dialer" group (by editing /etc/group) did not help. What do I need to do to make the serial port available to an application run by a non-root user? Please be kind enough to CC your replies to me since I am not a list subscriber. Thanks and regards, Khuzaima To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message