Bug 474778

Summary:	/dev/ttyUSB* devices do not inherit ownership of logged-in user
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Mark Watts <markrwatts>
Component:	hal	Assignee:	Richard Hughes <richard>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	10	CC:	jbeale, richard, robatino, sonarguy, suckfish, tmraz
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Description Mark Watts 2008-12-05 11:45:21 UTC

Description of problem:

When plugging in a USB-Serial dongle, /dev/ttyUSBx is created as:
root:uucp instead of $USER:uucp

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Any.

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Plug in USB-Serial dongle.
2.
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Actual results:
Ownership of /dev/ttyUSBx is root:uucp

Expected results:
Ownership should be that of the logged-in user.

Additional info:

The following rules added to /etc/security/console.perms.d/ fix this:

<usb>=/dev/ttyUSB*
<console>  0660 <usb>        0660 root.usb

Comment 1 John Beale 2008-12-06 02:39:04 UTC

I like that something need to be done by root to set access for users to non-standard USB device. However, something needs to be done to allow easy access for users that need it and block those that don't (like a group access set by root).

Comment 2 Tomas Mraz 2008-12-08 08:49:09 UTC

pam_console is deprecated. This has to be handled by HAL+consolekit.

Comment 3 Mark Watts 2008-12-08 09:05:44 UTC

I'n not fussed how this is achieved in the long run; the pam_console stuff *works* right now, so thats how I'm solving my immediate problem.

I'm not sure I'd class a USB<->Serial converter as "non-standard" - I shouldn't need to fiddle as root to use one to configure Network devices (Cisco et al) or even potentially connect such things as a serial digitising tablet.

Comment 4 Scott Glaser 2009-09-09 12:28:17 UTC

Have you tried with the latest hal package in Fedora 10, Fedora 11 or tried Rawhide? In either case, can you let us know whether the issue is still happening, and give the current version of the HAL packages you're using?

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Comment 5 Mark Watts 2009-09-14 10:55:02 UTC

Latest Fedora 10 seems to have fixed this.
Plugging in a usb-serial converter and running minicom as non-root works as expected.

Comment 6 Scott Glaser 2009-09-14 12:06:02 UTC

Based on the information provided in comment 5 I am marking this bug as closed. Should you again experienced these issues in the future please file a new bug against the actual component. Thanks for the rapid response.

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