Necessary Permissions in /dev

[Daniel Lyddy <sprocket PATH Berkeley EDU>]

Hello:

I have a Handspring Visor Deluxe running PalmOS 3.1H.  It is connected 
via USB to my workstation, which is running a stock Mandrake 8.2 
distribution, with the following RPMs installed:

gnome-pilot-conduits-0.8-1mdk
jpilot-0.99.1-0.9mdk
gnome-pilot-0.1.64-3mdk
pilot-link-0.9.5-8mdk
evolution-pilot-1.0.3-1mdk
libpilot-link4-0.9.5-8mdk
libgnome-pilot1-0.1.64-3mdk

None of the sync functions want to work unless I set the owner of 
/dev/ttyUSB0 and /dev/ttyUSB1 to be the current user.  On a multi-user 
system this is clearly unworkable.

I am not using devfs on this system because of other crippling problems 
that crop up when I enable that feature.

Is there another "trick" that you all are using to get around this 
permission problem, i.e. creating a group called "pilot", changing the 
group of the relevant devices to "pilot," and adding all potential 
pilot-syncers to that group?  I tried something similar (adding users to 
group "uucp," which currently owns all /dev/ttyUSB? devices), but it did 
not let me sync in this configuration.

Dan
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