[Xastir] Serial Port wont start

[Norm McMillan]

Iain,
tried
*sudo adduser myusername dialout*
got the expected response but still have to start xastir as root *sudo
xastir* to start the serial port.

It's been a long day so I'll look at it tomorrow. Thanks all for you help,
at least I know the problem, if not the answer :-)

Norm
vk3xci

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 8:18 PM, David Lane <kg4giy at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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