RE: modem user

[Shaleh <shaleh@livenet.net>]

On 01-Mar-99 Fethi A. Okyar wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The last thing I expected to have problems with during my
> recent hamm installation (2.0.34) was with the modem, but 
> guess what?
> 
> I spent a couple hours for the configuration, and figuring
> which jumper switches to use, my modem is using ttyS3. By 
> the way does anybody think it would be easier to use the 
> PnP mode, rather than hardwiring to COM3,IRQ4 ?
> 
> The problem I'm having right now, is I can only run programs
> such as minicom or seyon, when I have root privilages ! 
> I tried creating a symbolic link to /dev/ttyS3, called it
> /dev/modem, and even when I used this ordinary users still
> cannot access the modem. 
> Help will greatly be appreciated !
> 

Thre default setup is for ttyS? devices to be owned by root and group is dip
(or dialout one of the two).  Just add the user to this group and he can then
access the modem.  This prevents Debian from having lots of setuid and setgrid
programs.