[NBLUG/talk] xminicom

[Mark Street]

You might take a look in /etc/security

Take a look at console.perms I am sure you will see a ttyS0 entry there...  
PCI modems setup on ttyS4 though.

And take a peek inside the console.apps directory.

man 5 console.perms
man pam_console

PAM is your friend........  don't hack it if you don't have to.

On Sunday 29 June 2003 13:46, Jim Bianchi wrote:
> 	xminicom won't run when invoked by a user. It WILL run (and
> connect) when invoked by root. I've had this problem before, but never
> really solved it -- it never seemed a biggie since I so seldom used
> minicom or xminicom. Now, I'd really like to be able to use it as a user
> (as opposed to suing to root). The system is RH 8.0 on my Dell laptop. It
> says something about 'Device /dev/ttyS4 access failed: Permission denied.'
>
> 	/dev/modem is symlinked to /dev/ttyS4 and seems to be the correct
> device for such use. Both these files are world everythingable. minicom
> (no x), comes up and gives me the 'Device..' line (as above). xminicom
> opens a window long enough to print that line (but not read it), and then
> shuts down.
>
> 	Any hints on where to check and what to do in order to get this to
> work?

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