Hi Andrea,
> while working on gnome-bluetooth for Debian, I noticed that rfkill's
> read / write access needs to be enabled for normal users.
>
> There is a patch for this already:
>
> KERNEL=="rfkill", ENV{ACL_MANAGE}="1"
>
> This is done through an udev rule, but I don't think this is the best
> way to have it fixed.
>
> I guess that having a fix included into bluez itself would make the
> trick IMHO.
>
> Is there someone working on this already? if not, someone can suggest
> me another way to have this fixed without having to use an udev rule?
I have said this before and let me repeat it again, gnome-bluetooth
should not mess directly with the RFKILL subsystem. It is the wrong
approach and that is the reason why normal users don't have uncontrolled
access to /dev/rfkill.
Regards
Marcel
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