[BRLTTY] permissions on the brlapi.key file

[Mike Gorse]

On Mon, 29 Aug 2016, kendell clark wrote:

> hi
>
> Boy do I feel stupid. I don't have to create a new group or do any of that 
> other stuff I talked about. Brltty already provides a group called brlapi I 
> can work with. This simplifies things enormously. I'll just change the 
> permissions on the file during the last stage of the build process, make sure 
> the default user gets added to brlapi, and when installed the created user 
> does as well and things should more or less work.

That should generally work fine. An alternative, if you have brltty 5.4, 
would be to specify api-parameters auth=polkit in brltty.conf. This will 
tell brltty to let polkit decide whether the user should have access to 
the Braille display, rather than using brlapi.key (the default policy 
gives access to the user logged in locally but not to a user logged in 
remotely).