Accessing serial-usb ports: Solved

[Walter Dnes]

On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 06:42:56PM -0400, phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org wrote

> It turns out to be quite simple.
> 
> The fix is to edit the file
>                /etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions
> so that the USB ports ttyUSB* start up with permissions 666 rather than 660.
> 
> Thank-you, Walter, for pointing me in that direction.

  Glad to be able to help.  I don't have that file.  Are you running
PAM?  I'm not.  I know that /etc/udev/50-udev.rules gets replaced every
so often when running upgrades on Gentoo.  I don't claim to know what
happens with the 50-udev.permissions file.

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