On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 10:02 -0400, Dick Roth KA1OZ wrote: > John R. Lonigro wrote: > > Dick: > > Go to /dev (as root) and open up the permissions on ttyUSB0. Then you > > can access USB0 without being root. The default is rw access for root > > only. I had to do a similar thing when accessing ttyS0 with my K2. > > Unfortunately, every time I reboot, I have to do this all over again. I > > probably need to put it in a startup file somewhere.
This is not how to do this! the /dev tree is created by udev on every boot on centos/RHEL/fedora /dev/ttyS0 and it's friends are owned by root and are in the uucp group Add your normal user to the uucp group and you will be good to go usermod -a -G uucp <username> you may need to log your user out then back in for the group memberships to update 73 Brendan EI6IZ -- Don‘t complain. Nobody will understand. Or care. And certainly don‘t try to fix the situation yourself. It‘s dangerous. Leave it to a highly untrained, unqualified, expendable professional. _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
