[TriLUG] serial port permissions

[Morris Walton]

That's it.  Thanks.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-admin at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-admin at trilug.org] On
Behalf
> Of Ed Hill
> Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 10:03 AM
> To: TriLUG
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] serial port permissions
> 
> On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 06:04, Morris Walton wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a program that uses the serial port.  If I run the serial
port at
> > user level, it can't access the port, but at root level it can.  How
can
> > I change the permissions to allow me to run my program in user mode?
> 
> 
> Try:
> 
>   chmod a+rw /dev/ttyS[0-5]
> 
> and then
> 
>   setserial -g /dev/ttyS[0-5]
> 
> to see which ones are active.
> 
> hth,
> Ed
> 
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