[Xastir] Serial Port wont start

[David Lane]

Yeah, I was only thinking about the serial port. No coffee yet. It's a common thing to forget you need elevated privileges for serial access. One of those hardwired responses. Yours is a much better answer. 

Thanks. 


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> On May 18, 2016, at 6:12 AM, Iain R. Learmonth <iain at learmonth.me> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
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