On 08/15/2015 02:51 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 08/16/15 03:48, Mickey wrote:
> Fedora 21/ KDE
>
> I'm trying to run a App called apmplanner2 but it is not giving the user jim
permission of using the serial ports.
>
> the user owner of apmplanner2 is jim.
>
> When I try to run apmplanner2 I get a error message saying to run "sudo adduser
jim dialout"
>
> And the I get linux error on usage of adduser, something like adduser -D but that
still does not work.
>
> What am I not doing right ?
I've not used serial ports in a very long time. However, I seem to recall needing to
add the user name to the dialout group in /etc/group. Of course you'll need to
logout/login for that to take effect.
"sudo usermod -G dialout jim" should give user "jim" the auxillary
group
of "dialout".
The way to check is "sudo cat /etc/group | grep dialout" and verify
that "jim" is in the list of users at the end of the line (after the
last ":" mark).
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