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  1. Bug #1014992
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 1014992

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Jakub (szczur01) wrote : Re: Ubuntu 12.04, i386, cannot use rfcomm as regular user. Permission denied.

Problem still persists, can't access any /dev/rfcomm device (nor laptop built-in, nor usb bluetooth adapter) as a regular user.
Tested on:
uname -a
Linux jakub-Inspiron-3537 3.19.0-20-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 29 10:10:47 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux