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Add node-red user to dailout group

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Difficulty
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Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
42/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
docker, shell

Research direction

Start by reviewing the Docker image user and group setup for the listed Alpine architectures. Verify whether the dialout group is available and test serial access with node-red as well as permissions for existing persistent directories. Done means the default images provide serial access without an extra user/group override, without breaking persistent data ownership.

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Description

enhancement feature investigation question

Add node-red user to dailout group by default instead of node-red group.

From Debian Wiki:

dialout: Full and direct access to serial ports. Members of this group can reconfigure the modem, dial anywhere, etc.

In current images, node-red user has it's own group node-red, which has no permissions to serial. To gain permission to serial, one needs to add --user node-red:dailout to the docker run command or equivalent in docker compose file.

We might want to add node-red user to the dailout group, so that above is no longer required and node-red has permission to serial by default.

However, current users might get permission issues with the persistent dir, because of current group.

Do all architectures have dailout group available?
[ √ ] amd64/alpine
[ √ ] arm32v6/alpine
[ √ ] arm32v7/alpine
[ √ ] arm64v8/alpine
[ √ ] i386/alpine
[ √ ] s390x/alpine

Proposal: create a feature branch for this change and do some tests.

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