[BRLTTY] permissions on the brlapi.key file

[kendell clark]

hi

This I have now done. The only problem is that there doesn't seem to be 
any braille output. Looking in the logs, brltty is syncing with polkit 
but polkit might be denying me access, and I'm the only user logged in. 
This is after a reboot. I've uncommented the line that configures brltty 
to use polkit, is there anything else I need to do?

Thanks

Kendell Clark



On 08/29/2016 11:49 AM, Mike Gorse wrote:
> 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).
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