How do I allow regular user access to ttyUSB0 ?
Rick Stevens
ricks at nerd.com
Thu Jan 8 19:58:31 UTC 2009
Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Linuxguy123 <linuxguy123 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have a USB serial port that I use with my laptop. Its a PL2303
>> device. Linux recognizes it correctly and assigns it to device
>> ttyUSB0.
>>
>> I am having a problem whereby I can use ttyUSB0 as root but not as a
>> regular user. I need to allow regular user access to ttyUSB0. How do I
>> do this ?
> Try this:
>
> In the F10 Gnome desktop
> System Menu->System->Authorizations
>
> In the Authorizations gui tree select
>
> org->freedesktop->hal->device access->serial modems
It's actually in the "System->Preferences->System->Authorizations"
menu under Gnome.
> Change the authorizations to whatever you like. You can open to all
> users you can open to just the active console user, you can select
> users. For the sake of testing open it up to anyone without needing
> authentication. Once that is modified try plugging in the usb serial
> device and seeing if access works for your user.
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