Hi Renaud, On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 3:42 AM, Renaud (Ron) Olgiati < [email protected]> wrote:
> I have a problem, in that whenever I want to use the USB Serial port at > /dev/ttyUSB0 I have to log in as root. > > I wonder if the way to solve this is by adding a rule > /dev/ttyUSB0 root root 777 in Mcc > Security > Settings > Permissions or is > there another way ? > > I have tried to change the permissions in /dev but they always revert to > 660 > after a time. > The devices in /dev/ are recreated with each boot. This explains why they loose the permissions. udevd is responsible for creating them at boot time, following some rules. You need to modify those rules. If I remember correctly, they are located in /etc/udev/rules.d/. HTH, Alejandro. > > Cheers, > > Ron. > -- > Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest > quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosophorum. > -- Marcus Tullius Cicero > > -- http://www.olgiati-in-paraguay.org -- > >
