Subject: Re: [Bluez-users] rfcomm bind as unpriveledged user?
From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
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Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 21:03:57 +0200

Hi Russell,

> Is it possible to rfcomm bind as an unpriveledged user?  My naive
> attempts, e.g.:
> 
>   $ rfcomm bind 0 xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
>   Can't create device: Operation not permitted
> 
> ... are obviously not working.  Works fine as root.
> 
> This is on a Debian/unstable box, custom-compiled vanilla kernel
> v2.6.12.4, with udev 0.068-1.

this has been done on purpose. You can use connect as normal user.

Regards

Marcel


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