[Xastir] Serial port issues with Xastir on OS X

[Matt Kassawara]

Running Xastir as root or SUID root does not resolve the issue.

On 8/19/10 2:21 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Aug 2010, Matt Kassawara wrote:
>
>> It works correctly with a standard terminal application for
>> communicating with the TNC which eliminates any potential issues with
>> permissions.
>
> Not necessarily. The terminal app you used might have SUID or SGID
> privileges that let it talk to the serial port even though the user
> doesn't have the proper permissions.
>
> Try setting Xastir as SUID root (Owner root for the binary, then
> "chmod 4755" against the binary) to see if that solves your problem.
>
> If so and you don't want Xastir to run SUID root, you'll need to add
> yourself to the group that owns the serial port and make sure that
> the group has read/write privileges on the port.
>