Best Practice for Allowing non-root Users Access to Serial Port?

[Chris]

Martin McCormick wrote:

>	What is the safest way to let non-root users access
>/dev/ttyd0?  I notice that in FreeBSD, /dev/ttydx is owned by
>root:wheel.  In linux, the ttySx's are in a special group so the trick
>there is to add users to that group and make sure the ttyS's are group
>writable.
>
>	Here, I want the users to be able to use C-kermit to talk to a
>remote device without them having to be root.
>  
>
One way (don't know how safe) is to allow access via sudo - have a look 
at the sudo conf file in /usr/local/etc/sudoers

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Best regards,
Chris

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