On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, John Maier wrote:

> How do connect to a serial port on which the modem's CD is low.
> 
> if I set the /etc/ttys table for off softcar, I can connect.  However if   
> I set the port to off secure, I am denied access.

This is probably a really lame suggestion but I found in certain
circumstances I could only access /dev/tty01 as root if I chmod'ed
/dev/tty01 to 666. I'm a NetBSD-newbie so I don't have a clue
why that might be! 

Nick.