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/dev permissions?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael J. Yanowitz)
Wed Oct 30 08:10:58 1996
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 07:08:27 -0600
From: "Michael J. Yanowitz" <yanowitz@stereotaxis.wustl.edu>
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What should the permissions be for the /dev files?
I have spent the last four days, trying to rebuild my kernel
just to add PPP and sound support.
When trying to run PPP I got the misleading message:
"Sorry - PPP not supported in this version".
This forced me to keep rebuilding the kernel.
All I had to do was chmod 666 /dev/cua0 and now it is a
little better:
a) I can run PPP only as root,
b) As non-root, I get a message in my /var/log/messages
saying something like :
pppd: ioctl (FTIOS...): Operation not permitted.
Which file(s) do I need to give world access to?
Could have upgrading the dev-2.4.1.i386.rpm, changed
the permissions to be only run accessed by root?
Thanks, to those who assisted me with the sound and playing
cd problem. The problem was:
a) I needed to recompile the kernel with proper sound
configuration,
b) /dev/cdrom needed to be linked to /dev/hdd,
c) chmod 666 /dev/hdd.
I haven't tried yet, but I presume, I will have similar problems
with my printer /dev/lp1. Though surpisingly, my mouse worked
/dev/mouse without changing any permissions.
Thanks in advance:
Michael J. Yanowitz
October 30, 1996
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