Comment 14 for bug 570692

dragonneus@AZUREDRAGON:~$ /usr/bin/groups
dragonneus adm dialout cdrom plugdev lpadmin admin sambashare

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 4:12 AM, Scott James Remnant
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> On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 06:41 +0000, dragonneus wrote:
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>> Please forgive my ignorance but what groups command?
>>
> /usr/bin/groups
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> It's part of the "coreutils" package, which is an "Essential" package in
> Ubuntu.
>
> (In summary, you have it installed, or you're not running Ubuntu <g>)
>
> Scott
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> Scott James Remnant
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> Ubuntu 10.04 Can't open RFCOMM device: Permission denied
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/570692
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> Status in “udev” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
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> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: udev
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> Cannot open /dev/rfcomm4 new install Ubuntu 10.04. This worked fine in Ubuntu 9.10.
>
> I expected to see:
> Connected /dev/rfcomm4 to 00:1C:88:30:11:45 on channel 1
> Press CTRL-C for hangup
>
> Instead I have recieved:
>  Can't open RFCOMM device: Permission denied
>
> Same issue happened in Jaunty (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/+source/udev/+bug/374782) read there that "rfcomm were not in the dialout group" Tried to add rule in /etc/udev/rules.d/.
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>  KERNEL=="rfcomm*", GROUP="dialout" added in rules  worked one time then recieved same error message (Can't open RFCOMM device: Permission denied)
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> can this please be fixed in the Kernel, it affects many serial devices. In this case for me a bluetooth GPS.
>
> Thank you for your consideration and time,
>
> Dragonneus
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