/dev/modem permissions

[Ben Pfaff]

Mark Szidik <szidikm@mlc.lib.mi.us> writes:

> I have never really messed around with files in /dev before, but I want
> to make /dev/modem usable by a group.  How do I do that?
> 
> crw-rw----    1 root     14         4,  64 Feb 25 20:01 /dev/ttyS0

I think that's correct right there.  Just chgrp it to the group
that wants access, or add a new group (`modem'? `dialout'?),
chgrp it to that group, and add the users who should use it to
that group.