** Description changed: Binary package hint: gpsd from the man page: - > gpsd must start up as root in order to open the NTPD shared-memory segment, open its logfile, and create its local control - > socket. Before doing any processing of GPS data, it tries to drop root privileges by setting its UID to "nobody" (or another userid - > as set by configure) and its group ID to the group of the initial GPS passed on the command line — or, if that device doesn't + > gpsd must start up as root in order to open the NTPD shared-memory segment, open its logfile, and create its local control + > socket. Before doing any processing of GPS data, it tries to drop root privileges by setting its UID to "nobody" (or another userid + > as set by configure) and its group ID to the group of the initial GPS passed on the command line — or, if that device doesn't > exist, to the group of /dev/ttyS0. - > The assumption behind gpsd's particular behavior is that all the tty devices to which a GPS might be connected are owned by - > the same non-root group and allow group read/write, though the group may vary because of distribution-specific or local - > administrative practice. If this assumption is false, gpsd may not be able to open GPS devices in order to read them (such + > The assumption behind gpsd's particular behavior is that all the tty devices to which a GPS might be connected are owned by + > the same non-root group and allow group read/write, though the group may vary because of distribution-specific or local + > administrative practice. If this assumption is false, gpsd may not be able to open GPS devices in order to read them (such > failures will be logged)." since I have no /dev/ttyS0 and gpsd is configured for start up without - any devices / adding devices later via hotplug / control socket ist - switches it's user-id to 0 and can therefore not open /dev/ttyUSB0 which - is later created with group id dialout by udev. + any devices / adding devices later via hotplug / control socket it + switches it's user-/group-id to nobody(65535) / root(0) and can + therefore not open /dev/ttyUSB0 which is later created with group id + dialout by udev.
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