Sudo started working. Not sure what my issue was before. Thanks for the reply though.
On Thursday, March 20, 2014 12:03:55 PM UTC-6, RobertCNelson wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 12:09 PM, <[email protected] <javascript:>> > 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
