>Yes, you will need to chmod the actual device rather than the symlink. > >Best method, change the group and group permissions of the device, and >ensure the user is part of that group.
Mike the dev/sg0 (scanner) is owned by root:disk and /dev/ttyS1 (modem) by root:uucp and /dev/ttyS0 (aplm) by voytek:uucp should I just make a group, or which of existing groups should I use ? this machine will have no other shell users but me thanks Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
