Re: [expert] Minicom user question

[John Aldrich]

On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
What are the permissions on /dev/ttyS1? What permissions on
/dev/modem? (assuming you HAVE linked /dev/ttyS1 to /dev/modem) Make
sure /dev/ttyS1 is world-writeable, otherwise, it'll be "off-limits"
to non-priveleged users.
        John