root privileges are not necessary

[seb-sauer]

With the following udev rule, the program does not need root privs. Tested on Fedora 39 but should work on any modern Linux.

cat /etc/udev/rules.d/51-accuchek.rules 
# Installation:
# - Copy this file to /etc/udev/rules.d/
# - Run the command:
#       udevadm control --reload && udevadm trigger
ATTRS{idVendor}=="173a", ATTRS{idProduct}=="21d5", TAG+="uaccess"

[mascheck55]

udev rule did not work for me, I still have to use sudo

[mascheck55]

For creating a xls I used python3 and pandas
#!/usr/bin/python3
import json
import subprocess
import pandas as pd

result = subprocess.run("./accuchek", shell=True, capture_output=True, text=True)
print(result.stdout)
data = json.loads(result.stdout)
df=pd.DataFrame(eval(result.stdout))
df.to_excel("sample_data.xlsx", sheet_name="sheet1", index=False)
df.to_csv("sample_data.csv", index=False)

[seb-sauer]

udev rule did not work for me, I still have to use sudo

mascheck55, you need to comment out the "root check" in main.ccp at line 1584 then the udev rule should work:

  // must be root
 /*   auto euid = geteuid(); 
    LOG_FTL(0!=euid, "must be root, euid is %d, bailing", euid);
*/