Bug 148113 – media-plugins/vdr-serial: add user vdr to group tty

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description prolineserver 2006-09-18 13:35:12 UTC]

If the user vdr is not in the group tty the serial plugin isn't able to acces the serial port. Since there is no error message is would be nice to add it to this group during install by default.

[Comment 1 Matthias Schwarzott 2006-10-13 05:45:07 UTC]

Some other possibility would be to add the following to the initscript:
chown vdr /dev/ttySX

and chown it back to root in stop-part of script.

[Comment 2 Matthias Schwarzott 2007-01-27 18:16:04 UTC]

udev-104-r4+ and upcoming baselayout (1.13) will set serial-ports to group uucp.

[Comment 3 Joerg Bornkessel (RETIRED) 2007-03-02 18:21:46 UTC]

ok, old dusty bug ;)

vdr-serial-0.0.6a stabel on x86;

up from ebuild vdr-serial-0.0.6a-r1 will the user 'vdr' added to group 'uucp' for full access to /dev/ttyS*

Cheers ;)