On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Rusty Wright <[email protected]>wrote:

> Having to be root to diddle with the i/o pins seems questionable to me
> from a unix security standpoint.
>
> Repeating my response to a similar question:
>
> This is perhaps a more long-winded reply than you might want but in the
> general case I'm wondering why
> the BBB is shipped with the device nodes in /dev for LEDs, and any other
> i/o stuff, set to be owned and
> writable only by root.
>

Well, all it takes is a patch "today" and this will be fixed in the next
release.

You can see a udev rule we setup for spidev here:
https://github.com/beagleboard/image-builder/blob/master/scripts/chroot.sh#L492

So give me a one line patch for the led's and i'll add it..

Regards,

-- 
Robert Nelson
http://www.rcn-ee.com/

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