Iain, tried *sudo adduser myusername dialout* got the expected response but still have to start xastir as root *sudo xastir* to start the serial port.
It's been a long day so I'll look at it tomorrow. Thanks all for you help, at least I know the problem, if not the answer :-) Norm vk3xci On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 8:18 PM, David Lane <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah, I was only thinking about the serial port. No coffee yet. It's a > common thing to forget you need elevated privileges for serial access. One > of those hardwired responses. Yours is a much better answer. > > Thanks. > > > --- > David A. Lane, KG4GIY > EC/RO Prince William County ARES®/RACES > +1.703.628.3868 > http://www.pwcares.org/ > IM/Skype/Twitter: kg4giy > > > On May 18, 2016, at 6:12 AM, Iain R. Learmonth <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > >> On 18/05/16 11:08, David Lane wrote: > >> Are you in the root/wheel group? Serial needs to be started with root. > > > > :/ > > > > On Debian systems, and its derivatives like Ubuntu, you can do: > > > > sudo adduser YOURUSERNAME dialout > > > > The dialout group is allowed to access the serial ports (historically > > would have had a modem attached to them hence the name of the group). > > > > You should not need to be root to use a serial port, and this is pretty > > bad practice. > > > > In recent versions of the Xastir Debian package, you also do not need to > > be root to use the Linux kernel's AX.25 stack. You can add yourself to > > the xastir-ax25 group using the same command as long as you enabled > > non-root access when you installed the package. > > > > Thanks, > > Iain. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Xastir mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > [email protected] > http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir > _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
