How do I allow automatic non root access to my non standard USB device ?

Linuxguy123 linuxguy123 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 20 01:03:45 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 19:25 -0500, Dr. Diesel wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Linuxguy123 <linuxguy123 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>         
>         I'm doing some embedded development and my flash programmer
>         has a USB
>         interface.  Everything works fine if I program the device as
>         root, but
>         I'd like to be able to do it as a regular user.  I get port
>         permission
>         errors if I try to run the programmer as a regular user.

<snip>

>         How do I set it up to happen automatically in F10 ?
>         
>         Thanks
> 
> You could probably just put "chmod -R 777 /dev/ttyUSB*"
> into /etc/rc.local, 

Thanks, I'll give that a try.

> but this is not a development question, please post this somewhere
> else like fedoraforum.org.

I did. I posted to the fedora-list mailing list last Thursday at about
2PM Mountain time.  I didn't get a usable answer.  Thanks again for
yours.





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