[BRLTTY] Trouble installing the latest version

[Amanda Lacy]

> 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?

If either of these was true, the details were hidden from me. The only
difference I'm aware of is that before, I used apt-get install, ran
brltty (without sudo) and brltty worked. This time I did not use
apt-get install, and brltty doesn't start up properly unless I preface
the command with sudo.

On 7/18/16, Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> wrote:
> [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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