Re: Necessary Permissions in /dev



On 火, 2002-04-23 at 16:23, Matt McClure wrote:
> 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`.

I've got these lines in console.perms:

<tty>=/dev/tts/[0-1]
<console>  0600 <tty>        0600 root

but I sync through the serial port, and use devfs, so yours will look a
little different.
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