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  1. Bug #1014992
  2. Comment #18

Comment 18 for bug 1014992

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

I have this same problem on Xubunut 16.04.

I cannot access rfcomm* except as root, despite the permissions:

$ ls -al /dev/rfcomm0
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 216, 0 Feb 18 13:58 /dev/rfcomm0

and my membership to dialout:

$ id bob
uid=1000(bob) gid=1000(bob) groups=1000(bob),4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),27(sudo),30(dip),44(video),46(plugdev),115(lpadmin),131(sambashare)

I would like to access rfcomm0 via putty, but it WILL only work with
$ sudo putty

Is there a workaround that can permanently fix this?

Thanks bob.

Cheers,
Bob