On Sun, 2002-06-30 at 18:55, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > How does one allow a normal user to access a serial port? > I'm confused about which device/group to configure.
IMO the right way to do this is to add the user to the group which is allowed access to the device... for example on my system, /dev/ttyS0 points to /dev/tts/0 an ls -l /dev/tts/0 gives crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 64 Dec 31 1969 /dev/tts/0 Which means that the user root has rw access and the group dialout has rw access as well. So to give a user rw access, you can simply run (as root) adduser <username> dialout then log out and back in and you should be all set. This is how things should work for all devices Hope that helps -Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
