Bug 771918

Description of problem:
The configuration of switches requires the 'root' user or 'dialout' group due to ownership of the /dev/ttyS* devices.  If a user was created as an 'administrator' they should be able to natively do administrative tasks such as configure serial devices - switches / phones that use /dev/ttyACM* etc.

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

  
Actual results:
An administrator can not use any /dev/ttyS* devices by default without sudo.  this is inconvenient if the user is trying to run a gui application through the regular means such as gtkterm for example.


Expected results:
The administrative users be able to use any /dev/ttyS* devices as they are the administrator.


Note 1:
It looks, from my searching, that the only devices/files owned by the 'dialout' group are the serial devices and that the dialout group does not have any other function than to group own these devices - there's no 'dialout' user, only group.

Note 2:
The requested behaviour is the default in other distributions when creating the 'first' user account.