Hi,
i'm trying to use the parallelport of my freebsd box as an cheap
binary io module from apache as a server side include.
So if i try, as user nobody, to fopen the /dev/lpt i get an error
"unable to open device permission denied". When i su to root it works.
How/where can i set the permission to access the device? Are there any
other hints?
Thanks in advance
Mike

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Mike <mike.koeppel@solnet.ch> wrote:
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> i'm trying to use the parallelport of my freebsd box as an cheap
> binary io module from apache as a server side include.
> So if i try, as user nobody, to fopen the /dev/lpt i get an error
> "unable to open device permission denied". When i su to root it works.
> How/where can i set the permission to access the device? Are there any
> other hints?


Obviously, you got to change the permissions for /dev/lpt. Do a

chmod 666 /dev/lpt

to allow both read and write access for everyone to the device file.

Regards, Jens
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