Hi there!
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:01:24 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mardi 24 février 2009 à 14:57 +0000, Colin Watson a écrit :
>> group.master is a hard thing to change our mind about later, and frankly
>> I have never had the impression that these hardware access groups are
>> terribly stable. Why can't we just have user-setup create the groups
>> dynamically ('addgroup --system')? I would prefer that.
>
> Sounds clearly like an option; it’s not as if I cared how the group is
> created, the only point is that it has to be here.
I stumbled upon this bug while looking for other base-passwd bugs and I
was surprised this has not been fixed yet.
First, user-setup should always add the first user to netdev and
powerdev, as Josselin already pointed out:
<http://git.debian.org/?p=d-i/user-setup.git;a=commitdiff;h=28dbfd377b3a68019afa0733bcf938bc4e9c816d>
And the bug which is fixed by the commit above is nothing more than this
very same one:
<http://bugs.debian.org/352713>
Some more information: on a standard lenny, if not present, netdev is
created by hal, while powerdev by three different packages, namely
avahi-daemon, network-manager and wpasupplicant.
Given that hal is not anymore installed by default on squeeze
<https://wiki.debian.org/HALRemoval>, the netdev group is no more
created on a standard squeeze, while the powerdev group is created
exactly by the same three packages as in lenny.
Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca
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