Re: Etch: DBUS and powersave daemon message
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On Friday 18 May 2007, Modestas Vainius was heard to say:
> 2007 m. May 18 d., Friday, Curt Howland rašė:
> > Just like the single user on the machine not being added to the
> > powerdev group automatically. If it had, we wouldn't be having
> > this discussion.
>
> Installer did this since sarge (for audio, video, cdrom, floppy,
> plugdev, dialout, dip and similar), iirc. By the way, this is done
> only for the user you create during installation. If you create a
> new user manually, you also have to add to the groups manually.
I understand. All the problems I have run into have been for the user
created during installation.
> Do
> you select the desktop task in tasksel?
No, I do not use tasksel.
> I'm not really sure about 'powerdev' group, it's pretty new. But I
> believe Etch installer should definitely add the user to this group
> when you choose 'laptop' task.
At the end of the install, it does present me with the tasksel
options, I unselect desktop (because I do not want GNOME) and leave
laptop and standard. These problems still occurred.
> > What user, new to Linux, is even going to know the addgroup
> > command exists? Or after 12 years of using Debian, someone like
> > myself who finds it more efficient to just change the permissions
> > on the device that seems to be broken?
>
> Making permissions 777 you sacrifice security for "ease of use" and
> convinience. It's your choice.
Since "addgroup" was unknown until yesterday, I didn't sacrifice
anything for convenience. I fixed a problem that otherwise would make
the machine _UNUSABLE_.
So sure, "it's my choice", but that or go back to Windows? Yeah, some
choice.
You might also notice that, with my rhetorical question about problems
that it might cause, I am fully aware that adding a user to every
group sacrifices security.
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