[fpc-pascal] Access GPIO pins on RPi2 without root?

[Bo Berglund]

On Thu, 08 Oct 2015 19:48:54 +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd
<markMLl.fpc-pascal at telemetry.co.uk> wrote:

>Do not, under any circumstances, try to fiddle with the permission of 
>those files/directories. Instead, add the gpio group to your normal user 
>(as I have already said).
>
>Jonas has already asked us to discuss this elsewhere, i.e. either the 
>fpc-other or lazarus-other mailing list, and I really do not want to 
>upset the list managers by going into basic unix management or into 
>things which are specific to managing the RPi.
>
>Having said that, by analogy if you want to drive one of the serial 
>ports on a Linux system you usually end up adding the dialout group to 
>your normal user ID. If you aren't prepared to discuss this in one of 
>the more general MLs, then I suggest researching that and then extending 
>what you learn to adding the gpio group to your normal user.

Sorry for causing a problem here...
The lists you refer to are not present in the Gmane newsserver as a
newsgroup so I cannot access it.
I have asked about this on the Pi forum instead, but I fear noone
(almost) over there use free-pascal so I have no high hopes.

The user pi seems to be in the required group so I take it there is no
need to sudo any execution of the program for user pi?
pi at rpi2b-wheezy ~ $ groups pi
pi : pi adm dialout cdrom sudo audio video plugdev games users netdev
input spi i2c gpio

I will try to locate an updated pigpio.pas file by asking in the
Lazarus forum instead.
Bye!

-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden