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Re: Debian installer and braille



Frans Pop, le Wed 07 May 2008 14:58:15 +0200, a écrit :
> On Wednesday 07 May 2008, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Frans Pop, le Wed 07 May 2008 13:05:23 +0200, a écrit :
> > > On Wednesday 07 May 2008, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > > > > I do now get the brltty window (after running the documented
> > > > > command with sudo).
> > > >
> > > > Odd, you should not need sudo.  We need to find out why you need
> > > > that.
> > >
> > > Because brltty is in /sbin...
> >
> > And it is in /bin in my installation because I'm using upstream, ok,
> > mystery resolved and wiki updated: just use /sbin/brltty instead of
> > brltty.
> 
> Why is it in /sbin at all if it does not actually require superuser 
> privileges and has at least one use case where it can usefully be run by a 
> regular user?

Because not so long ago you couldn't do anything useful with brltty as a
regular user.

Mario, maybe we could switch back to /bin?

Samuel


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