Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (26 mails)

[Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@xxxxxxx>]

Jan Ritzerfeld wrote:
> inspired by the thread "Want to could use /dev/ttyS0 as user" on the 
> opensuse-factory maling list, I tried to figure out whether access 
> to /dev/ttyS0 can be granted by HAL/resmgr (since this works fine with the 
> alsa devices). According to /etc/hal/fdi/policy/90osvendor/80-resmgr.fdi, 
> access to serial devices should be granted to "members" of the resmgr modem 
> class (desktop users are not "member" of this class by default).

See /usr/share/doc/packages/resmgr/README, section
"How do I grant users permanent access to serial ports like ttyS0, ttyACM0?"

> But using 10.3, I cannot even find any serial device via HAL:
> jan@karl:~> hal-find-by-capability --capability serial
> jan@karl:~> 
> Obviously, udev recognizes my /dev/ttyS0:
> jan@karl:~> udevinfo --query=all --name=/dev/ttyS0
> P: /devices/platform/serial8250/tty/ttyS0
> N: ttyS0

That's weird. Normally hal should list that port indeed.

cu
Ludwig

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