[BRLTTY] Console open error on recent Arch Linux

[John Covici]

I can't seem to get the --stay-privileged parameter to work -- I put
it in the wrapper, is there a better place?  If I don't use that then
the usb device does not have suufficient privs.

On Wed, 24 Sep 2025 02:37:27 -0400,
Samuel Thibault wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Aura Kelloniemi, le mer. 24 sept. 2025 08:42:12 +0300, a ecrit:
> > crw-rw----   1 root tty     7,   1 24. 9. 08:18 /dev/vcs1
> > crw-rw----   1 root tty     7, 128 24. 9. 08:18 /dev/vcsa
> > crw-rw----   1 root tty     7,  64 24. 9. 08:18 /dev/vcsu
> > 
> > I fixed the issue by supplying --stay-privileged to BRLTTY and changing the
> > user from brltty to root. This of course is not an ideal solution. I don't
> > know why Arch developers have decided on such a strict device permissions,
> 
> These permissions are the same on Debian: the tty group can access vcs*,
> and the brltty service does add the tty group to the brltty daemon, is
> that not working on Arch?
> 
> Samuel
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