Re: rfkill read / write access needs to be enabled for normal users

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>]

Hi Andrea,

> while working on gnome-bluetooth for Debian, I noticed that rfkill's
> read / write access needs to be enabled for normal users.
> 
> There is a patch for this already:
> 
> KERNEL=="rfkill", ENV{ACL_MANAGE}="1"
> 
> This is done through an udev rule, but I don't think this is the best
> way to have it fixed.
> 
> I guess that having a fix included into bluez itself would make the
> trick IMHO.
> 
> Is there someone working on this already? if not, someone can suggest
> me another way to have this fixed without having to use an udev rule?

I have said this before and let me repeat it again, gnome-bluetooth
should not mess directly with the RFKILL subsystem. It is the wrong
approach and that is the reason why normal users don't have uncontrolled
access to /dev/rfkill.

Regards

Marcel