Autopilot needs to be run as root to access /dev/uinput

Bug #1143038 reported by Thomi Richards
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Autopilot
Fix Released
High
Francis Ginther
autopilot (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned
Raring
Won't Fix
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Autopilot has started making use of /dev/uinput to generate device events on systems where X11 is not available. However, currently this means that autopilot needs to be run as root, which is less than ideal.

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Changed in autopilot:
assignee: nobody → Francis Ginther (fginther)
Changed in autopilot:
milestone: none → 1.3
Revision history for this message
PS Jenkins bot (ps-jenkins) wrote :

Fix committed into lp:autopilot at revision 204, scheduled for release in autopilot, milestone 1.3.1

Changed in autopilot:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Changed in autopilot:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package autopilot - 1.3daily13.06.05-0ubuntu2

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autopilot (1.3daily13.06.05-0ubuntu2) saucy; urgency=low

  * autopilot-touch only suggests python-ubuntu-platform-api for now.
    It's not in distro and we need that requirement to be fulfilled to
    have unity 7, 100 scopes and the touch stack to distro.
 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Fri, 07 Jun 2013 13:33:46 +0200

Changed in autopilot (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Rolf Leggewie (r0lf) wrote :

raring has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the raring task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".

Changed in autopilot (Ubuntu Raring):
status: New → Won't Fix
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