dialout group

[Salvo Tomaselli]

Hello,

I was showing to my brother in law (who uses ubuntu) how to use subsurface. 
And the device (ttyUSB0) created for his suunto vyper has permissions

660 root dialout

And naturally, subsurface was failing to work because his user didn't belong 
to the dialout group.

I think that:

A: subsurface should detect the situation and provide meaningful error, able 
to help users to fix the problem.
B: The user should have access to the device, but I am not sure how this 
should work. I imagine subsurface might come with some udev rules. I am not 
very familiar with udev.


I don't know if a similar situation can also happen on other platforms, but I 
would imagine it is entirely possible.

What are your thoughts on fixing this?

Best
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Salvo Tomaselli

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