Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 11:20:58 -0600 From: Chris <racerx@makeworld.com> To: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best Practice for Allowing non-root Users Access to Serial Port? Message-ID: <424D82FA.3030405@makeworld.com> In-Reply-To: <200504011717.j31HHE9S080897@dc.cis.okstate.edu> References: <200504011717.j31HHE9S080897@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
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Martin McCormick wrote: > What is the safest way to let non-root users access >/dev/ttyd0? I notice that in FreeBSD, /dev/ttydx is owned by >root:wheel. In linux, the ttySx's are in a special group so the trick >there is to add users to that group and make sure the ttyS's are group >writable. > > Here, I want the users to be able to use C-kermit to talk to a >remote device without them having to be root. > > One way (don't know how safe) is to allow access via sudo - have a look at the sudo conf file in /usr/local/etc/sudoers -- Best regards, Chris PGP Fingerprint = D976 2575 D0B4 E4B0 45CC AA09 0F93 FF80 C01B C363
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