Newbie question: Device permisssions

[Ryan Gonzalez]

Try passing --device=all in finish-args: 
http://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/sandbox-permissions.html#device-access


On July 1, 2018 3:07:51 AM Alec Leamas <leamas.alec at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> I'm trying to package opencpn, a navigation program requiring access to
> serial data, typically on a device like /dev/ttyS0 or /dev/ttyUSB0.
>
> In traditional rpm packaging, access to these devices is handled using
> the group permissions. The devices are typically 660 and owned by
> root:dialout. Adding dialout to the running user's secondary groups
> gives her r/w access to the device without too much fuzz.
>
> Howwever, my too small brain cannot understand how to handle this is in
> a flatpak package. The device ownership in the sandbox is
> nfsnobody:nfsnobody, so the sandbox user cannot access it, permissions
> being 660.
>
> The brute force method would be to add a udev rule changing permissions
> and/or ownership of the device. But, before making this somewhat drastic
> step: Is there any other way to give the sandbox user r/w permissions to
> the devices involved?
>
> Cheers!
> --alec
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