Hi Yes, that is one of things I do, but when rebooting or un-plug /re-plug the device, the device ownership is again root...
Alvaro -----Mensaje original----- De: Iain Dooley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: Domingo, 10 de Septiembre de 2006 23:27 Para: Alvaro Cornejo CC: [email protected] Asunto: Re: Modem device owner On Sun, 10 Sep 2006, Alvaro Cornejo wrote: > Hi > > I´ve the following problem > > I´ve an usb modem that is correctly recognized by the OS (Fed5) and > works fine. > > However, when the machine reboots and or I need to disconnect the > modem, when reconecting it or after booting, bearbox can not open the > connection. I´ve a permision denied eror. After some debug I found > that the kannel init.d script that came with the fed5 rpm uses the > parameter --chuid kannel:kannel as an argument for starting kannel; > however, at boot or when reconnecting the usb device, /dev/ttyACM0, > the mapped usb device belong to root; so I have to either run chown > kannel before starting kannel in order to allow bearerbox write to the > modem or I´ve to edit the kannel init.d script and take out the chuid > parameter. > > My questions are: > > 1) Is there a problem running kannel as root; other than a security > issue? > 2) Is there a way to make the device belong or be write enabled to kannel > user/group at the moment the usb device is recognized by the system? this may be a little naive of me but can't you chgrp /dev/YOURDEVICE kannel and make it's permissions 664? cheers iain > > Regards > > Alvaro >
