Group "modem"

Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Fri, 16 Jul 1999 09:17:33 +0200

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Hi,

On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 06:57:03PM +0000, ks@karicobs.com wrote:
> Saturday July 03 1999 22:51, Gert Doering wrote to ks@karicobs.com:
>  >> What does this mean: can't get group 'modem'. No such file or
>  >> directory.
> 
>  GD> it means you have configured mgetty to chgrp the /dev/ttyS* to
>  GD> "modem", but there is no such group on your system.  Change
>  GD> "port-group ..." in mgetty.config to a group that does exist.
> 
> Is 'root' a safe choice? I don't want to see a bunch of "access denied" 
> messages next! :)

Depends on your system.  I use "group uucp", because that's where all
users are in that are allowed to use the modem.

gert
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