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Under Fedora - the group is also 'dialout'

And, you can 'cheat' - a bit - as root, use a text editor and add your 
username to the 'dialout' line of the /etc/groups file.

73

On 03/13/2011 11:37 AM, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> Not necessarily.  In Debian, the serial ports use the group "dialout"  (I recall UUCP was used in the distant past).  Also, /etc/profile is a script to create the default ~/.profile files.
>
> Adding a user to the appropriate group is the correct way to do this (using the adduser command as root):
>
> The syntax is  "adduser<user>  <group>"
>
> 73, Bob N7XY
>
> On Mar 13, 2011, at 9:22 AM, Gerald Hurt wrote:
>
>> Under Linux (I believe all flavors) add the group UUCP to your user profile
>> in /etc/profile and you will be given access to all serial ports without
>> having to change permissions or bypass Linux security.
>> Jay
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