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Re: [SLE] SendFax permission problem
- From: Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 21:50:14 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <200511031650.07843.gaf@xxxxxxx>
On Thursday 03 November 2005 4:29 pm, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
> cwsiv@linux:~> ls /usr/sbin/se* -l
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root users 59104 2005-02-11 09:59 /usr/sbin/sendfax
>
> so what permissions do I need to enable fax use by ordinary users?
>
> only when I am in root does 'which' find sendfax.
You need to add yourself to the uucp group.
/dev/ttyS0 is owned by root and is in the uucp group. You can do this
through yast.
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Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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> cwsiv@linux:~> ls /usr/sbin/se* -l
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root users 59104 2005-02-11 09:59 /usr/sbin/sendfax
>
> so what permissions do I need to enable fax use by ordinary users?
>
> only when I am in root does 'which' find sendfax.
You need to add yourself to the uucp group.
/dev/ttyS0 is owned by root and is in the uucp group. You can do this
through yast.
--
Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9
PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9
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