Re: [gentoo-user] Serial modem and permissions problem.

[Mark Kirkwood]

Dale wrote:
> Mark Kirkwood wrote:
>> Dale wrote:
>>> Mick wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hmm, this is what I am getting on a x86 build.
>>>>
>>>> # ls -al /dev/ttyS*
>>>> crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 64 Mar  3 22:09 /dev/ttyS0
>>>> crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 65 Mar  3 22:09 /dev/ttyS1
>>>> crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 66 Mar  3 22:09 /dev/ttyS2
>>>> crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 67 Mar  3 22:09 /dev/ttyS3
>>>>
>>>> BTW, I am a member of the uucp group, but can't remember if I ever
>>>> added myself to it manually:
>>>>
>>>> uucp:x:14:uucp,michael
>>>>
>>>>
>>> There have been a lot of changes lately.
>> I'm updating today, so will let you know if my /dev/ttyS* change group
>> ownership thereafter.

> If you can, check to see if udev was upgraded and there was a notice
> that there are group changes.  I would think udev would be what was
> changed.   I'm curious to see your reply though.
>

Ok - here is the state after the emerge (recall group *was* tty):

$ ls -l /dev/ttyS*
crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 64 Mar  4 15:53 /dev/ttyS0
crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 65 Mar  4 15:53 /dev/ttyS1
crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 66 Mar  4 15:53 /dev/ttyS2
crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 67 Mar  4 15:53 /dev/ttyS3

and /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules has been updated in the emerge to 
make this ownership change:

$ grep ttyS 50-udev.rules
KERNEL=="ttyS[0-9]*",   NAME="%k", SYMLINK="tts/%n", GROUP="uucp", 
MODE="0660"

I didn't see any notice, it just gets processed when doing etc-update. 
Probably worth eyeballing any changes to 50-udev.rules!


So looks like you need to be in the uucp group to dial-up now.

Cheers

Mark
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