Confirmed. At one point we 'd removed the user 'radio' check in the rild wrapper library ( the open components of rild ):
https://code- review.phablet.ubuntu.com/gitweb?p=CyanogenMod/android_hardware_ril.git;a=commitdiff;h=a95f74b45ea801f14b1aaa78707cf691de82c76c However when we moved from Cyanogen back to AOSP, we dropped this patch: https://code- review.phablet.ubuntu.com/gitweb?p=aosp/platform/hardware/ril.git;a=blob;f=libril/ril.cpp;h=19579393e1c550d4aae23bebf13d96dd558ba799;hb=865ce3b4a2ba0b3a31421ca671f4d6c5595f8690 ...and correspondingly made ofono use setgid/uid to assume the RADIO user's group and user IDs: https://github.com/rilmodem/ofono/blob/master/gril/gril.c#L870 There's a possibility that NM need's access to these directories, however that's the only explanation I can think of... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1240250 Title: phablet user part of the 'radio' group To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/android/+bug/1240250/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
