Stephen H Carbin wrote:
Stupid Newbie questions alert... if these bother you, hit "delete" now.... last night I installed minicom. During the install I received a prompt suggesting that I may need to "setuid" something for some reason(maybe to let the program control the modem?) .... how do I do this? do I need to do this? what is the syntax?... before you yell at me, I looked at all my books etc.. for "setuid", but couldn't find anything.
Steve
Has anyone actually yelled at you here? Wasn't me. Anyway you shouldn't have to set it suid. I recommend that you not. When you add a user via yast there is a little check box to check if you want the user to have access to the modem. I think that's all you need to do when you add the user. If re-adding the user is to difficult then do an ls -al /dev/modem and see what group it is then go into yast and add the user to that group. I don't know what group it is as I don't use a modem. Regards Mark