problem using the dialout group
Dave Stevens
geek at uniserve.com
Tue Jul 13 23:22:45 UTC 2021
I have a serial device connected to a uart that is connected to a usb
port. I can use it ok if I sudo but that is not what is wanted.
Instead I'd like to be able to use it as the logged in user, which
will always be dave. I was told to try adding dave to the dialout
group, so:
dave at dave-2021:~$ groups dave
dave : dave adm dialout fax cdrom sudo dip plugdev lpadmin sambashare
but this doesn't get me there. I'd like to copy incoming data to a
file like this:
dave at dave-2021:~$ groups dave
dave : dave adm dialout fax cdrom sudo dip plugdev lpadmin sambashare
dave at dave-2021:~$ cp /dev/ttyUSB0 data.bin
cp: cannot open '/dev/ttyUSB0' for reading: Permission denied
dave at dave-2021:~$ stat /dev/ttyUSB0
File: /dev/ttyUSB0
Size: 0 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 4096 character
special file
Device: 6h/6d Inode: 526 Links: 1 Device type: bc,0
Access: (0660/crw-rw----) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 20/
dialout)
Access: 2021-07-13 15:09:54.718052674 -0700
Modify: 2021-07-13 14:14:23.718052674 -0700
Change: 2021-07-13 14:14:23.718052674 -0700
Birth: -
suggestions?
Dave
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