<div dir="auto">It seems to me this is something worth a portal, for apps like the Arduino IDE and other apps that need to talk to the serial port. Whats the process to propose and submit an implementation? </div> <div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">El dom., 1 jul. 2018 14:06, Alec Leamas <<a href="mailto:leamas.alec@gmail.com">leamas.alec@gmail.com</a>> escribió: </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> On 01/07/18 14:43, Ryan Gonzalez wrote: > On July 1, 2018 3:07:51 AM Alec Leamas <<a href="mailto:leamas.alec@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">leamas.alec@gmail.com</a>> wrote: >> 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? > Try passing --device=all in finish-args: > <a href="http://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/sandbox-permissions.html#device-access" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">http://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/sandbox-permissions.html#device-access</a> yes.. already done that. The devices are visible, but unusable due to the nfsnobody:nfsnobody ownership and 660 permissions in the sandbox. Cheers! --alec _______________________________________________ Flatpak mailing list <a href="mailto:Flatpak@lists.freedesktop.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Flatpak@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/flatpak" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/flatpak</a> </blockquote></div>