On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Tim <ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
There probably was some option for me to set in the network
configuration whether any user could bring the interface up and down,
rather than requiring root to do it.  I don't really know, but it sounds
familiar, and makes sense.

Of course it made sense. The current situation doesn't. :)

Unless we're talking about a server configuration where you might want things pretty much locked tight as default. :) ...

Thanks Tim for proving my memory isn't that bad... I'd have remembered if I had to fiddle with permissions to get access to the serial port.

Anyway... moving on.... I'm trying to find what else I need to do to have *any* program talk to my dial-up modem. My plan is to set up a dial-in server, but first I need to know if the POTS RJ11 port of my FTTH ONT supports data calls, as I suspect it does, and to do that I need to try dialing some dial-up ISP....

So far the modem is laughing at me. "see?, Linux guys and their permissions!" it said.

;)
FC