Re: [gpsd-users] gpsd/udev behavior

[Eric S. Raymond]

Paul Fox <address@hidden>:
> so perhaps debian and fedora should be encouranged to pick a value. 
> and since i bet that value would be "dialout" in both cases, i now
> wonder whether gpsd should simply set that as the default gpsd_group
> value.  it would have solved my problem.

Or you could have built with gpsd_group=dialout, which would set that
as the privilege group.

Whether gpsd_group=dialout should be the default or we should continue to
look at the ownership of a prototype device comes down to a question of which
handles the larger percentage of out-of-the-box configurations.

I'm disinclined to change unless there's clear evidence that defaulting
to 'dialout' would be better.  
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>