cutecom requires sudo to work, but minicom works without - permissions?

[Vincent Barus]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Ruben de Groot <mail25 at bzerk.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:11:33AM -0500, Derek Ragona typed:
>
> > At 07:39 PM 4/14/2008, Steve Franks wrote:
>  > >I have two terminal programs - cutecom and minicom, both built from
>  > >ports with no tweaks.   Minicom will fire up and hit the serial port
>  > >just fine, but cutecom can't open it except with sudo.  I tried
>  > >tweaking devfs.conf (as well as a straight chmod on /dev/cuad0), and
>  > >it doesn't seem to rectify the problem.  I've also got several linux
>  > >ports that hit usb devices via libusb that won't connect without sudo
>  > >- obviously, I'd like not to have to run user-type apps with sudo on
>  > >my system....
>  > >
>  > >Thanks,
>  > >Steve
>  >
>  > You may want to try chown the device as well as chmod'ing it.  If this
>  > works you will likely need a script to reset these settings on reboot.  You
>  > can add a cron job under root to do this @reboot.
>
>  A more convenient option is putting the user who starts whateven terminal
>  program into the "dialers" group
>
>  Ruben
>
>
>
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Or use devfs.conf(5), devfs.rules(5) if you don't like the dialers group.

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