I had the same problem although I don't use
minicom all that much. Do a suid
(chmod 4755 minicom, or whatever, the 4 is what you
need to ad to the permissions.)
Frank
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On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Benjamin Sher wrote:
> Dear friends:
>
> Using Mandrake 7.0.
>
> A simple question about using Minicom as a user.
>
> Here is my version of Minicom:
>
> [sher@adsl-77-232-204 sher]$ rpm -q minicom
> minicom-1.82.1-1mdk [sher@adsl-77-232-204 sher]$
>
> I use it with a Robotics 56k external modem.
>
> It works perfectly as root. I then configured it as user with the
> command "minicom -s" and saved the file as "dfl" for default. I have
> tried to make it work as user by adding in /etc/minicom.users my user
> name "sher" (without quotes) and "dfl" (without quotes) to the
> configuration as instructed by the documentation in the file.
>
> Still, I can't get it to work as user. But it does work perfectly as
> root. So, what could be the problem? I get a permissions error message
> as user:
>
> [sher@adsl-77-232-204 sher]$ minicom -c on
> minicom: cannot open /dev/ttyS1: Permission denied
> [sher@adsl-77-232-204 sher]$
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
> Thank you all so much.
>
> Benjamin
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