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Re: User rights for openning the modem ?



Erez Boym writes:

 > I added a new user to my system but it seams I cant find the right
 > combinations of user groups and permission that allow that user to use
 > the modem.
 > 
 > Root can use the modem with no problem.
 > 
 > What rights or to which user groups a user must belong in order to use
 > the modem ?

On Debian you
adduser username dialout
to add him to the dialout group so he can use the modem. (There are
groups for each type of device access, such as cdrom, disk, dialout,
audio and so on and you add users to the groups according to the
devices you want them to have access to.)


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Alex Shnitman
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