Won't make any difference, John. If you chmod a symbolic link, the link
still always shows 777 but the file or directory that is pointed to is
changed. He has to setuid to root pppd and any other intermediary
programs. (chmod +s pppd). Then it will work.
Tom
John Aldrich wrote:
>
> On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> > I started out using RedHat linux about a year ago, then tried SuSE
> > linux, and now I've recently loaded Mandrake 7.0. I've found when I
> > used SuSE, I had no problem using minicom as 'user', but with both
> > RedHat & now Mandrake, I'm denied permission to /dev/modem when I try to
> > start the program. I've tried chmod 755 /dev/modem, but I still can't
> > access the program unless I'm logged on as root. Is this a security
> > setting with RedHat/Mandrake distribs? And how can I give permission to
> > users to access minicom?
> >
> What's /dev/modem symlinked to? Do a chmod 755 on that dev and that *should*
> fix it.
> John
