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| author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2013-11-23 08:11:14 -0500 |
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| committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2013-11-23 08:11:14 -0500 |
| commit | 433d1c77fb11082d8aade08bdb30ec7623bbbacb (patch) | |
| tree | 89d8050361e72143db8f0d1f098354a0fe5a246c /INSTALL | |
| parent | 32dbc0cf54de39eae8ff4faefa4ed22113711ea9 (diff) | |
| download | gpsd-433d1c77fb11082d8aade08bdb30ec7623bbbacb.tar.gz | |
"dialout" is sometimes UUCP.
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -47,8 +47,9 @@ prototypical device, typically /dev/ttyS0 under Linux or /dev/tty00 under *BSD. It does not actually matter what the owning group is, as gpsd will look this up on startup. Alternatively, (3), you can set a fallback group with the gpsd-group option in case the prototype is not -found: this should be the "dialout" group (or functional equivalent) -that has write access to serial devices. +found: this should be the group that has write access to serial +devices. On Debian and derivatives including Ubuntu this is "dialout"; +on Gentoo/Fedora/openSuse it is "uucp". Before dropping privileges, gpsd will ensure that it has access to devices given to it on the command line by forcing their group read |