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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: /dev/ttyUSB* group changed from uucp to root?
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 20:02:35
Message-Id: lvv7vq$j10$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] /dev/ttyUSB* group changed from uucp to root? by Grant Edwards
1 On 2014-09-24, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > After an update yesterday, I've noticed that the group assigned to
3 > ttyUSB devices has changed from uucp to root. Non-USB serial ports
4 > still seem to be uucp.
5 >
6 > Was this change intentional? If so, why?
7
8 P.S. It's easy enough to fix by adding a GROUP="uucp" to the udev rule
9 for the serial device in question, but why would users be expected
10 to do that in order to get the normal ownership for a serial port?
11
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