[PATCH] Usermanual - additional info for adding user to dialout-group

Thomas Maisl exp-122004 at maisl.com
Wed Dec 17 07:17:20 PST 2014


At least on Ubuntu systems an edit of a group membership takes effect only
after logging out and in of that user, if this user is currently logged in.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Maisl <exp-12004 at maisl.com>

Hopefully this small patch is ok...


diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index 595a56a..2aa3179
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -2864,6 +2864,8 @@ verifies that
 the appropriate group membership has been created. The +dialout+ group should
 be listed
 among the different IDs.
+ - Under some circumstances this change takes only effect (eg on Ubuntu)
+ after one logs out and then logs in again.

 With the appropriate device name (e.g. +dev/ttyUSB3+) and with write
permission
 to the USB

 


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