Re: normal user access to serial port
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
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