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		tetris11 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I-cant-believe-its-not-webusb: Hacking around lack... What group does the browser run in. Surely it's the same group as the user, and has the same wheel privileges, no?

microtonal 10 months ago [–]

Being in the wheel group is not enough to write to the relevant device nodes. At any rate, my point was that device permissions and UID/GIDs alone do not determine whether a user or application can write to the device. Higher privileges can be mediated through polkit.

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