For now, the rule to set the device group/permissions should either be
shipped with qlandkarte for a group or HAL for an ACL.
** Changed in: udev (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Won't Fix
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Ideally we would combine all such devices into an ACL
The difficulty is that nobody seems to have a list
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Yes, I generally understand that your presets are restrictive. But this
also means that a user who wants to access her GPS device currently
a) needs an admin account, or
b) needs to create a udev rule (which in turn requires both the knowledge about
this and an admin account).
I someone not fami
In general, we prefer not to grand such wide permissions for devices.
That means any system user can upload data to your GPS, when in reality,
only the user at the same physical console as the USB port should be
able to do so.
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In the meanwhile, I found out that this bug is due to permission issues
when accessing USB.
This issue affects all applications accessing garmin GPS devices directly via
usb (such as gpsbabel). Here is a description and a solution:
http://www.gpsbabel.org/os/Linux_Hotplug.html
The relevant part
Since this is a general problem, I changed affected package from
"qlandkarte" to "udev".
** Changed in: udev (Ubuntu)
Sourcepackagename: qlandkarte => udev
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