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  1. Bug #1014992
  2. Comment #15

Comment 15 for bug 1014992

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jareyes (juan-reyes-lopez) wrote : Re: Ubuntu 12.04, i386, cannot use rfcomm as regular user. Permission denied.

Same problem in Xubuntu 15.04. Can't access /dev/rfcomm0 as regular user. I stopped service ModemManager, then lsof /dev/rfcomm0 returned nothing and the problem persist. I only can do "cat /dev/rfcomm0" as root.