On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 12:09 PM, <jason.f...@gmail.com> wrote: > I just recently got my BBB, and although the board is new to me I do have > some experience with linux. > > The first thing I did when I received the board was to flash it with the > official Debian image. The next thing I did was create a new user with sudo > access and logged in under that account (just a best-practices thing I > always do). > > It seems that I am unable to access the GPIO pins while using a non-root > account. Even prepending the command with sudo doesn't work. However if I > log in as root then everything does work as expected. > > Is there a way to run these scripts from my user account or will I have to > log in as root each time?
sudo sh -c "echo 'something' >> /etc/privilegedfile" Regards, -- Robert Nelson http://www.rcn-ee.com/ -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.