[Swlug] G-Mouse

[Alice Mitchell]

On Mon, 2022-02-14 at 22:57 +0000, Rhys Sage via Swlug wrote:
> 
> rhys at Apollo:~$ sudo usermod -a -G dialout $(whoami)
> 
> rhys at Apollo:~$ id
> 
> uid=1000(rhys) gid=1000(rhys)
> groups=1000(rhys),4(adm),24(cdrom),27(sudo),30(dip),46(plugdev),114(l
> padmin),134(sambashare)
> rhys at Apollo:~$ 
> 
> There's no mention of a dialout. This is strange. I'm a little
> curious about the dialout. I remember the old days of using a modem
> and dialling out to a phone number to use the internet. I'm unsure of
> how that process applies to a GPS module. This is intriguing and I
> want to know more.

Your current shell only checked those permissions when it started, so
it has remembered what they used to be.

logout then back in again, or reboot, just to make sure everything is
up to date.

-Alice