[Xastir] Serial Port wont start

[Iain R. Learmonth]

Hi,

On 18/05/16 11:08, David Lane wrote:
> Are you in the root/wheel group?  Serial needs to be started with root. 

:/

On Debian systems, and its derivatives like Ubuntu, you can do:

sudo adduser YOURUSERNAME dialout

The dialout group is allowed to access the serial ports (historically
would have had a modem attached to them hence the name of the group).

You should not need to be root to use a serial port, and this is pretty
bad practice.

In recent versions of the Xastir Debian package, you also do not need to
be root to use the Linux kernel's AX.25 stack. You can add yourself to
the xastir-ax25 group using the same command as long as you enabled
non-root access when you installed the package.

Thanks,
Iain.