Mhuxd installed from Ubuntu/Debian package
If you have installed mhuxd from the Debian/Ubuntu binary package you will see the VSP ports are owned by the user “root” and group “mhuxd”:
# ls -la /dev/mhuxd/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 120 Oct 28 14:54 .
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4620 Oct 28 14:54 ..
crw-rw---- 1 root mhuxd 246, 0 Oct 28 14:54 cat1
crw-rw---- 1 root mhuxd 248, 0 Oct 28 14:54 fsk1
crw-rw---- 1 root mhuxd 247, 0 Oct 28 14:54 ptt1
crw-rw---- 1 root mhuxd 249, 0 Oct 28 14:54 wk
To make these ports accessible from your account you just need to make yourself member of the “mhuxd” group. Let’s say your user id is “johndoe” you can add yourself by this command:
sudo usermod -a -G mhuxd johndoe
You may need to re-login for the change to take effect.
Mhuxd installed from compiled source code
Here you would have to create user and group “mhuxd” yourself. You will also need to install the proper udev rule file. This will ensure that the virtual serial ports in /dev/mhuxd/ are owned by group “mhuxd”.
- Create a group “mhuxd”. Create a user “mhuxd” with primary group “mhuxd”.
- Find out where the udev rules are located. On Ubuntu/Debian this is typically in
/lib/udev/rules.d/ - From the mhuxd source distribution copy the file
debian/mhuxd.udevto the udev rules directory - In the udev rules directory rename the file
mhuxd.udevto59-mhuxd.rules
