On Friday 10 November 2006 19:58, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >Jeff Vian wrote: >> On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 09:28 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> On Friday 10 November 2006 06:59, stan mcintosh wrote: >>>> Gene Heskett wrote: >>>>> selinux is set permissive, and an ls -l of /dev/ttyS* show this: >>>>> >>>>> crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 64 Nov 9 16:35 /dev/ttyS0 >>>>> crw------- 1 root root 4, 65 Nov 9 16:35 /dev/ttyS1 >>>>> crw------- 1 root root 4, 66 Nov 9 16:35 /dev/ttyS2 >>>>> crw------- 1 root root 4, 67 Nov 9 16:35 /dev/ttyS3 >>>> >>>> Cool use of your serial port. Have you gone into your /dev >>>> directory and 'chmod o+rw ttyS*' as root? >>>> >>>> If this is too much of a noob approach, then I'm busted ;>) >>>> >>>> My privileges are: >>>> [root@localhost dev]# ls -l ttyS* >>>> crw-rw-rw- 1 root uucp 4, 64 Nov 9 19:29 ttyS0 >>>> crw-rw-rw- 1 root uucp 4, 65 Nov 9 19:31 ttyS1 >>>> crw-rw-rw- 1 root uucp 4, 66 Nov 9 14:13 ttyS2 >>>> crw-rw-rw- 1 root uucp 4, 67 Nov 9 14:13 ttyS3 >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> stan >>> >>> Ok, tried that, got this: >>> [root@coyote dev]# ls -l ttyS* >>> crw-rw-rw- 1 root uucp 4, 64 Nov 9 16:35 ttyS0 >>> crw----rw- 1 root root 4, 65 Nov 9 16:35 ttyS1 >>> crw----rw- 1 root root 4, 66 Nov 9 16:35 ttyS2 >>> crw----rw- 1 root root 4, 67 Nov 9 16:35 ttyS3 >> >> Stan's suggestion only changes the other permissions. You may want to >> run it as chmod +rw /dev/ttyS? to give the permissions to user, >> group, and other. > >One other thing to keep in mind - chances are the changes will not >stick. If you are using udev, it will reset them when you reboot. >You may also want to check >/etc/security/console.perms.d/50-default.perms to see if it is set >to manage serial port permissions. If so, it will overwrite the >permissions every time the "owner" of the console changes. It doesn't appear to include any ttyS* stuff at all, so I think I'm safe there. Thanks. >Mikkel >-- > > Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, >for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -- Cheers, Gene
