[Xastir] Re: Serial Port (ttyS0) problem

[Tate Belden]

Rodney Baker wrote:

> This could simply be a permissions problem. By default Fedora sets the tty 
> ports to owner=root, group=uucp. You need to make sure that the user running 
> xastir is a member of the uucp group. You can do it using the graphical tools 
> or you can run usermod -G -a uucp <username> from a shell (again as root).
> 
> You will need to log out and back in again for the changes to take effect.
> 
> Regards,
> Rodney.
> 

Or you can get *REALLY* barbaric and manually edit /etc/group

Search for the uucp line - add your username to the list.

Originally, it looks like:
uucp:x:14:uucp

Make it look like:
uucp:x:14:uucp,name
Where 'name' is your username.

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