[PLUG] Ownership of ports

Galen Seitz galens at seitzassoc.com
Mon May 20 01:14:14 UTC 2002


> 
>   I added myself to the group "uucp" then changed permissions to 660. Now I
> cannot get jpilot talking to that port. I also added myself to the group
> "wheel", changed the port's group to that, but find the same results. The
> only way it works is when the device is owned by me.
> 

Here is what I believe to be a typical setup for serial ports.

crw-rw----    1 root     uucp       4,  64 May 17 13:03 /dev/ttyS0
crw-rw----    1 root     uucp       4,  65 Jul 31  2001 /dev/ttyS1

-rwxr-sr-x    1 root     uucp      1503024 Jan 13  2000 /usr/bin/kermit

YMMV,
galen







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