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Re: Using debconf to give rights to users



On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:25:50 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, David Paleino wrote:
> > From 1.5.9-1 then, if the user doesn't add herself to the `netdev'
> > group, the GUI won't start up, firing DBus errors (#516767 is a
> > clear example).
> 
> Regardless of what debconf questions are asked, the GUI should error
> out in such cases before it tries connecting to dbus with an error
> message that tells the user to add themselves to netdev if they want
> to use wicd-gui. [Python tracebacks aren't particularly informative,
> unfortunately.]

Agreed.

> I'd personally suggest asking a debconf question at low priority since
> there is a sensible default (no users get access).

Thank you,
David

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