Serial Ports

[Jeffrey Ross]

Karl Larsen wrote:
>
>    I compiled gMSSK which is a Ham Radio program that uses the sound 
> card to transmit and receive written data and pictures from another 
> station miles away using a radio.
>
>    It works fine but:
> crw-rw----  1 root uucp     4,   64 Jun 15 23:25 ttyS0
> crw-rw----  1 root uucp     4,   65 Jun 15 23:25 ttyS1
> crw-rw----  1 root uucp     4,   66 Jun 15 23:25 ttyS2
> crw-rw----  1 root uucp     4,   67 Jun 15 23:25 ttyS3
> drwxr-
>
> as you can see ttyS0 is owned by root and group uucp. I need to change 
> this so a user can use this com 1 serial port. How do you do that?
>
> 73 Karl
>

easiest (proper?) way to do this is add the user or users that need 
access to the serial ports to the uucp group in /etc/group.  Next time 
the user logs in they'll have access to the serial ports.

Jeff