Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:11:33 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: stevefranks@ieee.org, "FreeBSD Mailing List" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: cutecom requires sudo to work, but minicom works without - permissions? Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20080415091009.024d8f30@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <539c60b90804141739g1f60be46m576bc3fa5ef3580d@mail.gmail.co m> References: <539c60b90804141739g1f60be46m576bc3fa5ef3580d@mail.gmail.com>
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At 07:39 PM 4/14/2008, Steve Franks wrote:
>I have two terminal programs - cutecom and minicom, both built from
>ports with no tweaks. Minicom will fire up and hit the serial port
>just fine, but cutecom can't open it except with sudo. I tried
>tweaking devfs.conf (as well as a straight chmod on /dev/cuad0), and
>it doesn't seem to rectify the problem. I've also got several linux
>ports that hit usb devices via libusb that won't connect without sudo
>- obviously, I'd like not to have to run user-type apps with sudo on
>my system....
>
>Thanks,
>Steve
You may want to try chown the device as well as chmod'ing it. If this
works you will likely need a script to reset these settings on reboot. You
can add a cron job under root to do this @reboot.
-Derek
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