Serial Ports
Jeffrey Ross
jeff at bubble.org
Sat Jun 16 23:01:46 UTC 2007
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
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