Comment 2 for bug 75149

It would sure be nice if distros would give sane permissions to pilot devices, but that's another issue entirely.

There's actually 2 problems here. Older versions of KPilot didn't deal well with weird Palm devices that trigger an immediate connection to the PC when you dock them. That's why you have /dev/ttyUSB{0,1} and /dev/ttyUSB{2,3}, I believe. KPilot from KDE 3.5.10 or greater should not have this problem.

The second problem is the device permissions problem. The solution for that should be either a udev rule as Jon posted, or adding yourself to the "dialout" group.

I think this bug can be closed.

(I'm the KPilot developer/maintainer... sorry I didn't introduce myself properly... =;))