Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:50:36 +0200 From: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> To: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> Cc: stevefranks@ieee.org, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: cutecom requires sudo to work, but minicom works without - permissions? Message-ID: <20080417115036.GA33974@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20080415091009.024d8f30@mail.computinginnovations.com> References: <539c60b90804141739g1f60be46m576bc3fa5ef3580d@mail.gmail.com> <6.0.0.22.2.20080415091009.024d8f30@mail.computinginnovations.com>
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On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:11:33AM -0500, Derek Ragona typed: > 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. A more convenient option is putting the user who starts whateven terminal program into the "dialers" group Ruben
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