Accessing serial-usb ports

[Russell]

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At 04:24 PM 8/13/2006 -0400, you wrote:
>On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 11:31:13PM -0400, phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org wrote
>
>> A Linux serial-usb port is created when you plug in a USB device, and
>> disappears when you unplug the device. Unfortunately, the port is created
>> as owned by root and the read and wite permissions are disabled for
>> ordinary users. Consequently, if you operate in user mode you have to
>> become root and change these permissions every time a device is plugged
>> and unplugged, or when you reboot.
>> 
>> This gets old fast, so we need a better solution than manual intervention.
>
>  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.
>
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