Serial Ports

[Karl Larsen]

Jeffrey Ross wrote:
>
>
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>
>>    I compiled gMSSK which is a Ham Radio program that uses the sound 
>> card to transmit and receive written data and pictures from another 
>> station miles away using a radio.
>>
>>    It works fine but:
>> crw-rw----  1 root uucp     4,   64 Jun 15 23:25 ttyS0
>> crw-rw----  1 root uucp     4,   65 Jun 15 23:25 ttyS1
>> crw-rw----  1 root uucp     4,   66 Jun 15 23:25 ttyS2
>> crw-rw----  1 root uucp     4,   67 Jun 15 23:25 ttyS3
>> drwxr-
>>
>> as you can see ttyS0 is owned by root and group uucp. I need to 
>> change this so a user can use this com 1 serial port. How do you do 
>> that?
>>
>> 73 Karl
>>
>
> easiest (proper?) way to do this is add the user or users that need 
> access to the serial ports to the uucp group in /etc/group.  Next time 
> the user logs in they'll have access to the serial ports.
>
> Jeff
>
    Not quite Jeff. I am the user and it didn't work until I rebooted 
Windows upps Linux :-)

Karl