[BRLTTY] strange behavior udev and systemd

Alexander Epaneshnikov aarnaarn2 at gmail.com
Mon Nov 23 11:46:30 EST 2020


23.11.2020 18:38, Dave Mielke пишет:
> [quoted lines by Alexander Epaneshnikov on 2020/11/23 at 10:55 +0300]
>
>> ноя 23 10:33:14 brltty[492]: polkit_authority_check_authorization_sync error: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: Unix process subject does
>> not have uid set
> Another user has reported a similar problem. Can you confirm that it only
> occurs when brltty isn't runing as root, i.e. that there's no problem when
> brltty is running as root?
I will be glad to confirm it. can i somehow tel systemd that it should 
run brltty as root?
>> what is the polkit used for?
> It's one of brlapi's authentication methods that has the effect of allowing the
> user at the console to use brlapi without a key file.
>
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Sincerely, Alexander.



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