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Subject: Re: [Bluez-users] Socket permissions
From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: Thor Egil Skaug <paxtonrd@hotmail.com>
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Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 17:17:17 +0100

Hi Thor,

> When I use the hciconfig, hcitool, etc. applications that depend on
> raw-data hci-sockets,
> I have to be logged in as root for it to work. If not I get a permission
> denied error.
> 
> Which files do I have to alter permissions on in order for a normal user
> to do this?

there is a limited number of commands and events that are accessable to
everybody. There are no file permissions to change this, because it
depends on CAP_NET_ADMIN rights.

Regards

Marcel




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