This is why Unix/Linux has groups. Do the following:

ls -la /dev

You will see groups such as i2c, dialout, tty, etc. If you want to access these 
devices from a regular user account, add your user to those groups. If you need 
to use a device that has root:root, then change the group and add your user 
account to that group. 


Regards,
John




> On Feb 5, 2016, at 2:13 PM, Drew Fustini <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I noticed that the Raspberry Pi kernel adopted /dev/gpiomem to provide a way 
> for non-root users to access GPIO:
> 
>     Add /dev/gpiomem device for rootless user GPIO access:
>     https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/pull/1112
> 
> Is there anything comparable for BeagleBone?  Anyone have ideas/plans?
> 
> I started thinking about this after seeing this post on the Adafruit forum:
> 
>     Trying to use Adafruit_BBIO library and run as non-root user
>     https://forums.adafruit.com/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=89338&p=450036#p450036
> 
> 
> thanks,
> drew
> 
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