Martin Pitt wrote: > I thought it already does? No, it only adds the first user to several existing groups. > In Ubuntu we just create the needed groups in base-config straight > away (lpadmin, plugdev, and scanner; we use plugdev for cameras as > well). Isn't that desirable for Debian? I know the technical > difference between static groups like sound and dynamic groups like > plugdev, however, from the user's POV there is not a really > fundamental difference between these concepts. By adding groups to the base system, base-config would be enroaching quite a lot on the territory of the passwd and base-passwd packages. I'd really rather not do that. I added the existing first user group membership code as a quick fix because passwd's maintainer is holding out for some kind of more perfect solution in bug #166718. This will be removed from base-config in etch (if necessary, it will be re-referred to the techinal committed, which punted on the issue before), and was not intended as the start of a slippery slope that would end up with base-config responsible for creating a random set of groups on the system. -- see shy jo
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