RfKill wants root privileges?

[Mauricio Tavares]

On Wed, May 4, 2022 at 4:49 AM ToddAndMargo via users
 wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Fedora 35
>
> What is this all about?

Looking at
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/driver-api/rfkill.html#userspace-supp...,
it seems it is supposed to expose /dev/rfkill to the userspace. Maybe
it is only allowing users to query the state but not change it?
> Many thanks,
> -T
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[Joe Zeff]

On 5/4/22 03:52, Mauricio Tavares wrote:
>    Looking at
>
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/driver-api/rfkill.html#userspace-supp...,
> it seems it is supposed to expose /dev/rfkill to the userspace. Maybe
> it is only allowing users to query the state but not change it?

[joe@barrayar ~]$ ls -l /dev/rfkill
crw-rw-r--+ 1 root root 10, 242 Apr 28 16:05 /dev/rfkill

Only root has write access, so it's asking permission.

[ToddAndMargo]

On 5/4/22 09:01, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 5/4/22 03:52, Mauricio Tavares wrote:
> > Looking at
> > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/driver-api/rfkill.html#userspace-supp...,
> >
> > it seems it is supposed to expose /dev/rfkill to the userspace. Maybe
> > it is only allowing users to query the state but not change it?
>
> [joe@barrayar ~]$ ls -l /dev/rfkill
> crw-rw-r--+ 1 root root 10, 242 Apr 28 16:05 /dev/rfkill
>
> Only root has write access, so it's asking permission.

But why all of a sudden?