Re: [ gpsdrive ] Support for Bluetooth GPS?

[Andreas Brauchli <a.brauchli@elementarea.net>]

On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 21:29 +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-02-05 18:19:33 +1300, Hamish <hamish_nospam@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Joerg wrote:
> > > As already mentioned I would put in a feature (autostart-gpsd)  which
> > > would  optionally start gpsd directly while starting gpsdrive.
> > 
> > That would require root access of some sort. (see gnome-sudo, k3b dev
> > perms setup)
> 
> Why?  It only opens a unpreviliged socked and accesses a serial port.
> Even today, you can start gpsd from within gpsdrive... 
it is thought as being run as root (this is why the bin is installed
in /usr/sbin/gpsd by default) - it will drop privileges once the ports
have been opened (maybe your user isn't allowed to access a serial
port.. probably not on the default ubuntu system, but there might be
such setups)

andreas

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