[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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