Re: Permissions to devices

["A. John Peters" <ajpeters ajpconsult com>]

On 10/9/02 1:53 PM, "Rick Stevens" <rstevens vitalstream com> wrote:

> A. John Peters wrote:
>> I want to give permissions to my ttys to regular users. I seem to get
>> permission denied.
>> 
>> How do I allow users to have access to devices.
> 
> Well, the easiest way is "chmod o+rw /dev/ttyS*".  That gives read
> and write access to "others".
> 
> To control it a bit more, don't do what I just said.  Instead, add the
> users you want to have access to the "uucp" group, since the devices
> in question are usually owner root, group uucp.  Your call.
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That did it.  Tried both on 2 different systems and both worked.

John