[drats_users] Trying to get d-rats running on my linux box...

[Nate Duehr]

On Oct 11, 2008, at 10:36 AM, Dan Smith wrote:

>> Now I am going to log back in under my screen name and try it again
>> since I went in and set the permission to read and write for OTHERS.
>
> Yeah.  To fix it permanently, add your user to the "dialout" group.  I
> dunno why RedHat systems don't do that by default, but that's how it
> is... :)

Just a "security" thing.  Users don't have permission to use the  
serial ports in RH systems by default, but the "dialout" group does,  
and adding a user to the group gives them permission.

(It's all based off of Unix being designed for lots of users on the  
system at the same time, not something seen often anymore, since the  
days of having a shell account on someone else's machine are virtually  
gone.)

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Nate Duehr, WY0X
nate at natetech.com