Issue: If you run BC Vault Desktop Application on Linux, device is not recognised.


Description: Linux may not recognise the device due to a permissions issue with the USB HID device. Due to large number of different Linux distributions you might need to adopt the following script/info to yours.

RedHat: Using USBGUARD


For Debian like distributions:

#-------------------------------------------------
# allow USB access (depends on linux distro)
# for Debian based you could try something like

echo "KERNEL==\"hidraw*\", SUBSYSTEM==\"hidraw\", ATTRS{manufacturer}==\"Real Security\", TAG+=\"uaccess\"" | sudo tee /etc/udev/rules.d/70-becoz-premission.rules > /dev/null

# apply changes with:

sudo udevadm control --reload-rules && udevadm trigger

For Mint, Ubuntu 20.04, OpenSUSE 15.3 and other similar Linux distributions:


echo "KERNEL==\"hidraw*\", SUBSYSTEMS==\"usb\", ATTRS{manufacturer}==\"Real Security\", TAG+=\"uaccess\"" | sudo tee /etc/udev/rules.d/70-becoz-premission.rules > /dev/null

sudo udevadm control --reload-rules && udevadm trigger