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Old 05-24-2012
Renaming serial ports in unix
Hello everyone, this is my first post and I am by no means a unix expert, so I hope I explain my issue well.

I'm on a mac (mac mini), 10.7.

My question is about serial port names. I have an arduino microcontroller plugged in via usb, and every time the computer is shut down it gives the arduino a new auto-generated name (some variation of tty.usbmodem111 or tty.usbmodem121).

The problem is that I am communicating with my arduino via firmata with an external program where I have set the correct serial port name by hand. So of course, whenever the computer restarts and then renames the serial port that my arduino is on, my program can no longer find it!

So I need to find a way to manage this issue, either by making sure it always names the arduino serial port consistently. Or, maybe a script that can be executed to re-name the serial port to something pre-set. Or any other ideas for dealing with this renaming issue.

I really need to solve this problem, as I will not be able to rename the serial port by hand each time.

Any help would by very greatly appreciated, I really need to solve this issue.

Best,
Erik
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mac_portacl

MAC_PORTACL(4)						   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 					    MAC_PORTACL(4)

NAME

     mac_portacl -- network port access control policy

SYNOPSIS

     To compile the port access control policy into your kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file:

	   options MAC
	   options MAC_PORTACL

     Alternately, to load the port access control policy module at boot time, place the following line in your kernel configuration file:

	   options MAC

     and in loader.conf(5):

	   mac_portacl_load="YES"

DESCRIPTION

     The mac_portacl policy allows administrators to administratively limit binding to local UDP and TCP ports via the sysctl(8) interface.

     In order to enable the mac_portacl policy, MAC policy must be enforced on sockets (see mac(4)), and the port(s) protected by mac_portacl must
     not be included in the range specified by the net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedlow and net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedhigh sysctl(8) MIBs.

     The mac_portacl policy only affects ports explicitly bound by a user process (either for a listen/outgoing TCP socket, or a send/receive UDP
     socket).  This policy will not limit ports bound implicitly for outgoing connections where the process has not explicitly selected a port:
     these are automatically selected by the IP stack.

     When mac_portacl is enabled, it will control binding access to ports up to the port number set in the security.mac.portacl.port_high
     sysctl(8) variable.  By default, all attempts to bind to mac_portacl controlled ports will fail if not explicitly allowed by the port access
     control list, though binding by the superuser will be allowed, if the sysctl(8) variable security.mac.portacl.suser_exempt is set to a non-
     zero value.

   Runtime Configuration
     The following sysctl(8) MIBs are available for fine-tuning the enforcement of this MAC policy.  All sysctl(8) variables, except
     security.mac.portacl.rules, can also be set as loader(8) tunables in loader.conf(5).

     security.mac.portacl.enabled
	     Enforce the mac_portacl policy.  (Default: 1).

     security.mac.portacl.port_high
	     The highest port number mac_portacl will enforce rules for.  (Default: 1023).

     security.mac.portacl.rules
	     The port access control list is specified in the following format:

		   idtype:id:protocol:port[,idtype:id:protocol:port,...]

	     idtype    Describes the type of subject match to be performed.  Either uid for user ID matching, or gid for group ID matching.

	     id        The user or group ID (depending on idtype) allowed to bind to the specified port.  NOTE: User and group names are not
		       valid; only the actual ID numbers may be used.

	     protocol  Describes which protocol this entry applies to.	Either tcp or udp are supported.

	     port      Describes which port this entry applies to.  NOTE: MAC security policies may not override other security system policies by
		       allowing accesses that they may deny, such as net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedlow / net.inet.ip.portrange.reservedhigh.  If
		       the specified port falls within the range specified, the mac_portacl entry will not function (i.e., even the specified
		       user/group may not be able to bind to the specified port).

     security.mac.portacl.suser_exempt
	     Allow superuser (i.e., root) to bind to all mac_portacl protected ports, even if the port access control list does not explicitly
	     allow this.  (Default: 1).

     security.mac.portacl.autoport_exempt
	     Allow applications to use automatic binding to port 0.  Applications use port 0 as a request for automatic port allocation when bind-
	     ing an IP address to a socket.  This tunable will exempt port 0 allocation from rule checking.  (Default: 1).

SEE ALSO

     mac(3), ip(4), mac_biba(4), mac_bsdextended(4), mac_ifoff(4), mac_mls(4), mac_none(4), mac_partition(4), mac_seeotheruids(4), mac_test(4),
     mac(9)

HISTORY

     MAC first appeared in FreeBSD 5.0 and mac_portacl first appeared in FreeBSD 5.1.

AUTHORS

     This software was contributed to the FreeBSD Project by NAI Labs, the Security Research Division of Network Associates Inc. under
     DARPA/SPAWAR contract N66001-01-C-8035 (``CBOSS''), as part of the DARPA CHATS research program.

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