This is the permissions on the files for the USB being used by the Garmin stephen@stephen-N150P:/$ lsusb Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0ac8:c33f Z-Star Microelectronics Corp. Webcam Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0781:5567 SanDisk Corp. Cruzer Blade Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0a5c:219c Broadcom Corp. Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 002 Device 004: ID 091e:0003 Garmin International GPS (various models) Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub stephen@stephen-N150P:/$ ls -l dev/bus/usb/002 total 0 crw-rw-r-- 1 root root 189, 128 May 11 13:39 001 crw-rw-r-- 1 root root 189, 131 May 13 19:03 004 Stephen On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 3:25 PM, Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 12 May 2016, Stephen Furner wrote: > >> Alan, >> >> The permissions for the usb ports are: >> >> stephen@stephen-N150P:/$ ls -l dev/bus/usb >> total 0 >> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 100 May 11 14:39 001 >> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 May 12 01:48 002 >> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 May 12 21:04 003 >> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 May 11 14:39 004 >> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 May 11 14:39 005 > > What about the permissions for the files inside those directories? > > Alan Stern > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html