Re: Default groups
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 3:48 AM, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote:
> Every now and then I am revisiting the "default group" issue for my
> lab's gnome desktop. I recently built a new image, and last time (a few
> years ago), I found that in fact very few groups were required to be
> added to each user (plugdev and fuse and pulse-rt, IIRC).
> However, http://wiki.debian.org/DebianDesktopHowTo lists many more of
> these groups: audio, plugdev, camera, video, floppy, cdrom, tape and
> maybe scanner, fax, dip (for "dial-ip", ppp connections to Internet with
> pon/poff as set up by pppconfig) or dialout (full serial ports/modem
> access).
>
> Has anyone knowledge of wether these groups could be useful in some
> cases that I didn't foresee or couldn't test? I do not think any of
> these are still useful (but I do not own a camera, and I am not sure how
> one can see whether pulse-rt is useful or not). Sincerly,
These days upstreams (inc GNOME) are moving from adding groups to
using ConsoleKit and PolicyKit so I suggest ignoring all the groups
since most of them are legacy.
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