Accessing serial-usb ports

[phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org]

> On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 11:31:13PM -0400, phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org wrote
>
>> A Linux serial-usb port is created as owned by root and you have to
>> become root and change these permissions every time a device is plugged
>> and unplugged, or when you reboot. We need a better solution.

>   The *DEFAULT* udev behaviour is to create /dev entries owned by root
> and assigned permissions 660.  You want to change the default for one or
> more devices.  Check out the udev rule-writing information at...
> http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html and specifically the
> section "Controlling permissions and ownership", where you can change
> any/all of owner, group, and access permissions.

 Walter Dnes <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org>

This is a hopeful pointer, Walter, thank-you. I'll have a look at that
approach.

-- 
Peter Hiscocks
Syscomp Electronic Design Limited, Toronto
http://www.syscompdesign.com
USB Oscilloscope and Waveform Generator
647-839-0325

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