Re: Necessary Permissions in /dev

[Matt McClure <mlm aya yale edu>]

Daniel Lyddy wrote:

> 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:

...

> 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.

Don't know about Mandrake, but on Red Hat, you can put some magic in 
/etc/security/console.perms to make the console owner own the 
appropriate device.  It's part of the pam package.

See `man console.perms`.

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