[BRLTTY] BRLTTY, systemd and unprivileged user

John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com
Sat Aug 22 18:44:58 EDT 2020


I already sent you a debug log about my problem with this situation
some time ago.

On Sat, 22 Aug 2020 16:30:47 -0400,
Dave Mielke wrote:
> 
> [quoted lines by John Covici on 2020/08/22 at 06:15 -0400]
> 
> >I had this problem of starting and stopping of brltty and it only
> >happened when the actual braille driver initialization failed.  Since,
> >I have no brltty user and don't want one, brltty happily runs as root
> >with the argument -p /run/brltty.pid.  It seems to be started by a
> >generated systemd unit in the  /run/systemd/units directory.  
> 
> Even if you (or anyone else, for that matter) encounters this kind of problem,
> please (yes, I'm begging) let us know about it right away even if you find a
> way to get things to work on your system. None of us wants a catastrophe to hit
> lots of users when the next version is released.
> 
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