Bug#995971: brltty-x11: After upgrade to 6.4, /etc/brlapi.key removes the read permission for users other than root

[Samuel Thibault]

Control: retitle -1 after upgrade to 6.4, polkit authentication doesn't work any more
Control: severity -1 grave

Jean-Philippe MENGUAL, le sam. 09 oct. 2021 11:00:50 +0200, a ecrit:
> After investigating, it seems the /etc/brlapi.key has no longer read permission
> for group and others, which have no permission at all. ONly root has all 
> perm.

That has always been so since version 5.4-1~2.
Normally we use polkit to authenticate users, which should be making
things work automatically under X.

I'll try to see why polkit stopped working.

Samuel