This one time, at band camp, Christian Perrier said: > From the changelog of user-setup, the D-I component that sets the root > user password AND creates the first regular user: > > > * Add first user to two additional groups: netdev and powerdev > > Note that this assumes that something creates these groups during > > the task installation, as hal does with powerdev. The first user is added > > > It should be time to take advantage of the new "add user to useful > groups" feature of adduser (--add_extra_groups). The problem is that > these "extra" groups is defined in /etc/adduser.conf so the task of > maintaining the list of default extra groups would be delegated to the > maintainer of adduser. > > PS to Marc (Haber): would you be OK to work with us (D-I team) to > define a "reasonable" list of "extra" groups? That should be the list > of groups which it seems reasonable to pu the first created user in > (audio, etc...) > > PS2 to Marc: it seems that adduser.conf(5) does not document the newly > added directive(s) to deal with extra groups. That is true - I will add something as soon as I find the time. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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