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.
firstboot-17.2-1.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/firstboot-17.2-1.fc17
firstboot-17.2-1.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.