Re: User use of Serial Ports

[Ed Greshko]

On 08/16/15 03:48, Mickey wrote:
> Fedora 21/ KDE
>
> I'm trying to run a App called apmplanner2 but it is not giving the user jim permission of using the serial ports.
>
> the user owner of apmplanner2 is  jim.
>
> When I try to run apmplanner2 I get a error message saying to run "sudo adduser jim dialout"
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> And the I get linux error on usage of adduser, something like adduser -D but that still does not work.
>
> What am I not doing right ?

I've not used serial ports in a very long time.  However, I seem to recall needing to add the user name to the dialout group in /etc/group.  Of course you'll need to logout/login for that to take effect.