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From: "Stanley K. Cheong" <scheong@ece.uci.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: access to modem as non-root
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 09:36:10 -0800
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Hi,

I have FreeBSD 2.1R installed and it's been fun playing around with it.  
However, I can only get access to the modem on COM1 as root.  What do I 
need to do to get access to the modem as a normal user?

I am new to Unix system admin.  Any help would be appreciated.

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