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Re: Sudo mode and policykit



Le vendredi 26 mars 2010 à 15:15 -0300, Margarita Manterola a écrit : 
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 6:42 AM, Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > In squeeze, with consolekit installed, a lot of groups are made
> > obsolete: audio, netdev, powerdev, plugdev, video (modulo a number of
> > buggy packages remaining), probably bluetooth. In the end, floppy and
> > cdrom could go away as well. We are actually improving in this
> > direction.
> 
> I'm very glad to hear this.  However, I'm worried that I (and I think
> many others too) have no idea how to handle having users with the
> appropriate permissions without the groups. I looked up the
> information about consolekit, and couldn't find any reference for this
> either.

It is done by /lib/udev/rules.d/70-acl.rules.

> I very recently installed squeeze with KDE, and the way to allow the
> second user to access to USB devices and similar stuff was to add that
> user to the same groups the first user had been added.

This should not be necessary anymore.

Cheers,
-- 
 .''`.      Josselin Mouette
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