[Mageia-discuss] Making the serial port available to all

Mon Sep 17 09:08:16 CEST 2012

Hi Renaud,
+
+On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 3:42 AM, Renaud (Ron) Olgiati <
+renaud at olgiati-in-paraguay.org> wrote:
+
+> I have a problem, in that whenever I want to use the USB Serial port at
+> /dev/ttyUSB0 I have to log in as root.
+>
+> I wonder if the way to solve this is by adding a rule
+> /dev/ttyUSB0 root root 777 in Mcc > Security > Settings > Permissions or is
+> there another way ?
+>
+> I have tried to change the permissions in /dev but they always revert to
+> 660
+> after a time.
+>
+
+The devices in /dev/ are recreated with each boot. This explains why they
+loose the permissions. udevd is responsible for creating them at boot time,
+following some rules. You need to modify those rules. If I remember
+correctly, they are located in /etc/udev/rules.d/.
+
+HTH,
+Alejandro.
+
+
+
+>
+> Cheers,
+>
+> Ron.
+> --
+>               Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest
+>                   quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosophorum.
+>                                        -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
+>
+>                    -- http://www.olgiati-in-paraguay.org --
+>
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