On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 06:39:03PM +0100, hazel debian via blfs-dev wrote:
> My understanding of polkit is that it isn't concerned with hardware access
> at all but with access to certain actions within programs. Polkit-aware
> programs list their available actions and these are rationed out to
> different kinds of users, both active and inactive.
>
You have a much better, and more concise, understanding of it than I
do.
But in this case, my reading of the action (see the reply to Pierre
I've just sent) is that "Allow attaching devices to seats" is what
allows users logged-in locally and not in the input group to use
/dev/input/event* (and whatever modem devices are used by
ModemManager).
ĸen
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