[PATCH] Usermanual - additional info for adding user to dialout-group - 2nd try

Thomas Maisl exp-122004 at maisl.com
Wed Dec 17 08:16:23 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>


sorry for the noise for the 2nd try




diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.txt b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
index 3556a22..a23ed42 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.txt
@@ -2927,6 +2927,8 @@ 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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