AOL on Linux

[whitnl73 at juno.com]

On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 whitnl73 at juno.com wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Linux World 999 wrote:
> >
> > Do you know how to check for this?  How can I make sure is modem is usable
> > by all users?
>
> chmod a+rw /dev/ttyS0
> chmod a+rwx /var/lock
>
> You might not want to do this.  For a single-user workstation it doesn't
> much matter, but the administrator of a multiuser system might not want
> to let just any user work the modem.  It is more customary to allow a
> group to work the modem, and add the users to be allowed to the group.
>
> groupadd modem
> chgrp modem /dev/ttyS0
> chmod g+rw /dev/ttyS0
> chgrp modem /var/lock
> chmod g+rwx /var/lock
>
> I don't know how to add a user to a group, except to edit /etc/passwd
> and give it that group number.
>
> Lawson
>
> --
> ---oops---

This might already be done for you, depending on distro...IIRC
Slackware has group uucp owning the modem and lock directory..

ls -ld /var/lock
ls -l /dev/ttyS0

Lawson

---oops



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