Re: guix shell set user groups to access security token

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Alexander Asteroth <alexander.asteroth@h-brs.de> writes:

> Dear all,
>
> I'm trying to get my security token software (sealone) to work under
> guix SD. The software is unfortunately not available in source and seems
> to expect a FSH filesystem. I therefore tried to run it in guix shell. A
> first trial was:
>
> guix shell -CFD ungoogled-chromium gcc:lib --expose=/dev
>
> in this environment I can execute the software and the tokes get's
> connected but reports some error condition and is not usable. It might
> have to do with the user not beeing in group cdrom which usually is
> necessary to access /dev/sg0.
>
> Any idea how to set the groups the user is member of in guix shell?
> Or any other idea how I could get such software to work under guix?
>
> Cheers,
> Alex

Bit of an ugly hack but what I usually do is chown devices I'm working
with to myself.
Haven't tried that in a guix container but in theory it should work.