[TriLUG] serial port permissions

Jeremy Portzer jeremyp at pobox.com
Wed Feb 12 08:59:09 EST 2003


On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 08:04, Morris Walton wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a program that uses the serial port.  If I run the serial port at
> user level, it can't access the port, but at root level it can.  How can
> I change the permissions to allow me to run my program in user mode?
> 

Check the man pages for console.perms and pam_console; they should get
you on the right track.

--Jeremy




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