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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
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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
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At 01:14 PM 1/18/2002, Mark Hounschell wrote:
Stephen H Carbin wrote:
Stupid Newbie questions alert... if these bother you, hit "delete" now....
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Thanks for your prompt response. Nobody has yelled at me, I must admit. I know how frustrating it is to answer questions that are answered all over the place, so I was hoping that I hadn't missed anything obviously documented. I installed minicom but I haven't figured out how to use it yet. I can open it, I partly configured it (minicom -s as root), but I didn't see anywhere obvious to enter the phone number that I wanted dialed... tonight I will look again to try and find a man page for it.... I'm sure it's documented somewhere lol ... I did try entering "minicom" on SuSE's web-site under the search function and found nothing, but maybe I'm just lame... I'll keep trying. 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
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