Serial Ports

[Jeffrey Ross]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>>> 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
>>
>>     
> You shouldn't have to reboot - just log out, and log back in. The
> groups you belong to are checked when you log in, so adding you to a
> group does not affect the current logged in secession. It is
> possible to be logged in twice and belog to different groups in each
> secession...
>
> Mikkel
>   

I believe instead of logging out you could do "newgrp uucp" if you don't 
want to logout and back in.