[Mageia-discuss] Making the serial port available to all

[Deri James]

On Sunday 16 Sep 2012 21:42:13 Renaud  Olgiati wrote:
> I have a problem, in that whenever I want to use the USB Serial port at
> /dev/ttyUSB0 I have to log in as root.
> 
> I wonder if the way to solve this is by adding a rule
> /dev/ttyUSB0 root root 777 in Mcc > Security > Settings > Permissions or is
> there another way ?
> 
> I have tried to change the permissions in /dev but they always revert to 660
> after a time.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ron.

Isn't there a group (dialout?) you can make yourself a member of which owns 
the group rights to the device? Remember to logout/in after adding yourself to 
the group.

Cheers 

Deri