On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 12:19 -0500, pursley1@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 02:09 -0500, pursley1@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > >> With the help of another person, we were able to deduce that the problem > >> was because of Fedora, which by default, does not give access to the USB > >> ports to users. There is no group to add to fix this problem and it > >> took changing the global security permissions to allow everyone full > >> access to the ports to get it to work. This really should be addressed > >> on future versions of Fedora so I don't have to re-fix this problem > >> every time the system updates the security. How do I recommend it? > >> > > > > Which ports are you talking about? If you mean /dev/ttyUSB0 etc., these > > only come into existence when a USB device is connected. They are > > configured by the udev subsystem. AFAIK, if you use libusb as I > > suggested, you don't need to worry about this. > > > > poc > > > Actually, I do use libusb and it *FINALLY* gave me an error telling me > why it didn't make it accessible to users. The problem was it was > configured to look for a group named "dialout", which Fedora never > created and so was never used. Not sure why but I added the group and > the problem seems to have resolved. Interesting. I don't have a group called 'dialout' yet I didn't get this error. poc
