[BRLTTY] Trouble installing the latest version

Dave Mielke dave at mielke.cc
Mon Jul 18 16:48:56 EDT 2016


[quoted lines by Amanda Lacy on 2016/07/18 at 15:12 -0500]

>But why might I need to run as root now, when I didn't need to do so with 5.2?

I'm sure that you did. Is it possible that your 5.2 brltty executable was 
set-uid root? Were you perhaps starting it with systemd, which would've run it 
as root?

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