...what about perms on /dev/tty00 on i386?  i only have access to alpha
and sparc right now...

SGID kmem won't help if you can't access the serial port.  can you minicom
or kermit into the port? (don't use tip to test, it's SUID UUCP)

On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Roine Thunberg wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
>
> > is the doscmd binary suid root? i've seen strange setups where you may
> > need to add yourself to secondary group 'dialer' or 'uucp' to get group
> > writeable permissions to serial devices in /dev
> >
>
> -r-xr-sr-x  1 root  kmem  133308 Feb 15 07:44 doscmd
>
> ...I've installed doscmd from pkgsrc.
>

--Brian

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