[BRLTTY] Using the Orbit Reader 20 with BRLTTY and Orca

[Nolan Darilek]

Oh, it just occurred to me that those lines aren't necessarily mutually 
exclusive. Is that correct? So one allows local connections, another 
restricts authentication to a given group. I assumed that they both 
controlled access to a single connection mechanism of some sort.


In any case, thanks for the help getting this going. Works nicely now. 
My only remaining question is whether it is possible to use the Braille 
keyboard on the Orbit under Orca? It works fine on the console, but is 
unresponsive under Orca/X. I'd thought to use the Orbit as a small 
keyboard on a screenless Intel NUC as a laptop replacement, but looks 
like I may need to spring for a separate keyboard there as well.

On 6/12/19 12:27 AM, Dave Mielke wrote:
> [quoted lines by Nolan Darilek on 2019/06/11 at 22:16 -0500]
>
>> If by "kernel" you mean the Linux kernel, I did nothing at all with the
>> kernel. I simply replaced this line:
>>
>> #api-parameters Auth=group:brlapi        # Allow some local group
>>
>> with this one:
>>
>> api-parameters Host=:0            # Accept only local Unix connections
> okay. That's what you meant by:
>
>> I enabled local-only auth via a Unix socket.
>> And then it worked. But my user is in the brlapi group, so I'm not clear on
>> why I received logs implying that it wasn't.
> It's been a long time since I've looked at the capability, but I don't think
> that it's possible to determine which user and/or groups the client is in when
> an IP socket is being used.
>