/dev/ttyS0 permission error

[Jay Cliburn]

Gilboa Davara wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 21:23 -0600, Jay Cliburn wrote:

>> The current workaround is to add non-root users to the uucp group.  (Or maybe 
>> this is the solution?)  Any ideas why I can't get a udev rule to change the 
>> perms to 0666 on /dev/ttyS0?

> Why not solve the problem using the uucp group? It's the designed
> solution?

Your final question mark indicates you have the same question I do:  Is the uucp 
group *the* solution for non-root users needing to access the serial port.

My other question is why doesn't a non-default udev rule work as expected on 
/dev/ttyS*.