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<H1>[Mageia-discuss] Making the serial port available to all</H1>
<B>Deri James</B>
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<I>Mon Sep 17 11:15:03 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>On Sunday 16 Sep 2012 21:42:13 Renaud Olgiati wrote:
><i> I have a problem, in that whenever I want to use the USB Serial port at
</I>><i> /dev/ttyUSB0 I have to log in as root.
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</I>><i> I wonder if the way to solve this is by adding a rule
</I>><i> /dev/ttyUSB0 root root 777 in Mcc > Security > Settings > Permissions or is
</I>><i> there another way ?
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</I>><i> I have tried to change the permissions in /dev but they always revert to 660
</I>><i> after a time.
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</I>><i> Cheers,
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</I>><i> Ron.
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Isn't there a group (dialout?) you can make yourself a member of which owns
the group rights to the device? Remember to logout/in after adding yourself to
the group.
Cheers
Deri
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