/dev/modem permissions

Paul Melson melson@scnc.holt.k12.mi.us
Tue, 27 Feb 2001 10:14:09 -0500 (EST)


> 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

     `chown root.modemgroup /dev/ttyS0`
     `chmod g+rw /dev/ttyS0`

      Just like any other system file.  UNIX is a beautiful thing, no?