On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 07:50:45 -0500, Larry Alkoff wrote: >On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 15:19:19 +0400, Stas Sergeev wrote: > >>Hello. >> >>Larry Alkoff wrote: >>> I use dosemu as user lba and lba is a member of the tty group in >>> /etc/group. >>> There are no other tty processes active. >>> Clearly I'm missing something needed to get the modem going. >>I don't know what version of dosemu >>you have there but I guess its one of >>those 1.0.x which require root for using >>serial ports. In this case just update your >>dosemu. >> >> > >To my great surprise dosemu used the serial port >when invoked as root. > >Even though the permissions of /dev/ttyS1 etc are root/tty >and the user is a member of tty group. > >I'm using dosemu 1.0.2 which is the latest I found >on the dosemu website. > >What is the latest version and where do I find it? > >Thank you, >Larry > > >
A followup on the work-around I have found. I use dosemu as user lba. Changed permissions of /dev/modem and /dev/ttyS1 from root:tty to lba:tty. Changed permissions of /dev/fd0 from root:tty to lba:users. Now both the serial port / modem and floppy work when I start dosemu as user lba. It looks like dosemu is looking only at the owner and not the group for deciding permissions. Is this well known or should I report it somewhere? I've also found a patch from 1.02 to 1.0.2.1 but no changelog to see what it fixed. There is no indication in the 1.0.2.1.tgz file of what was changed either other than perhaps comparing the source - that's beyond my expertise. Is there a changelog anywhere I can look at? Larry Alkoff Larry Alkoff N2LA - Austin TX - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
