Re: Bug#233894: Default groups for first user [was: Shadow package NMU in preparation for l10n issues]
Frans Pop <aragorn@tiscali.nl> writes:
> On Wednesday 03 March 2004 17:05, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > 233894 may induce some discussion (is it OK to automatically add the
> > first user to system groups like cdrom, audio and so on). This is not
> > critical thus we can delay it.
> >
> Suggestion: make this dependent on debconf PRIORITY.
>
> HIGH: add user automatically; this would mostly be used by end-users installing
> a desktop, probably for single user
> MEDIUM: show dialog with some groups (like audio, cdrom) preselected by default
> LOW: show dialog with no groups preselected by default
>
> It would be nice if some explanation of the use of each group would be given
> in the dialog.
>
> I think there is little or any real security risk if this feature would be
> well documented and explained in the installation manual.
>
> Thanks.
No.
Either the device permissions or membership in the device groups need to be
managed differently, by a pam module or a login script.
The way Debian does it now is an ugly kludge with annoying side effects, and
I will consider *any* patches that add "initial" users to groups to be bugs
until reeducated by the technical committee or some other solution is
found.
kcr
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