Re: [LI] kwvdial error

[Manoj Victor Mathew <mvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 07:42:03PM +0530, Rajesh Fowkar wrote:
> If I run kwvdial with SUID set ( chmod +s /usr/bin/kwvdial ) it runs
> perfectly. However if I remove the SUID bit then it gives me error 
> 
> device or resource busy.
> 

Probably only root has permissions to access /dev/ttyS1.

To what group does /dev/ttyS1 (or similar) belong? On Debian (slink),
/dev/ttyS1 belongs to group 'dialout'. All uses permitted to dial out are
members of the dialout group.

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