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Recommend UACCESS tag instead of plugdev group #86

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@lnqs lnqs commented Feb 12, 2022

The plugdev group suggested to use for the device files is specific to Debian based Linux distributions and doesn't exist on a lot of others. To keep the system setup consistent the UACCESS tag is recommended now.

Some issues of other projects facing this for reference:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1571599
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/68533
OpenHantek/openhantek#80
Yubico/libu2f-host#116

The plugdev group suggested to use for the device files is specific to
Debian based Linux distributions and doesn't exist on a lot of others.
To keep the system setup consistent the UACCESS tag is recommended now.
@muesli muesli added the documentation Improvements or additions to documentation label Feb 12, 2022
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