Serial Port for Root Only

[Brendan Jones]

On 04/30/2011 09:20 AM, Mike Dwiggins wrote:
> I have a USB serial adapter I am trying to use as a seial console device
> for putty.  It is identified and works like a champ for root but will
> not work for any other user.
>
> For anyone other than root putty returns "Unable to Open Port".  I have
> checked proc/bus/usb/devices and can find nothing that would restrict use.
>
> Is there somewhere else I should be looking?
>
> Thanks
>

Try adding the user to group tty