[BRLTTY] permissions on the brlapi.key file

Mike Gorse mgorse at alum.wpi.edu
Mon Aug 29 21:23:23 EDT 2016


Hi Kendall,

I just remembered that the Makefile might not automatically install the 
policy file. You might need to manually copy 
Authorization/Polkit/org.brltty.policy to a place where polkit would 
expect to find it (/usr/share/polkit-1/actions perhaps).

On Mon, 29 Aug 2016, kendell clark wrote:

> 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


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