Re: Syncing Palm device via USB Cable

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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


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