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Re: Bug#513964: base-passwd: please add netdev and powerdev groups to group.master



Hi there!

On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 22:43:42 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le samedi 26 février 2011 à 17:58 +0100, Luca Capello a écrit : 
>> > 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:
>
> This bug dates from 2006. These groups are obsolete now, these
> authorizations rely on consolekit instead.

Should the packages still relying on these groups be notified, then?

While being mostly an agnostic on these matters, I am not sure this is
the way to go: dbus is still 'Priority: optional' and, for example,
wpasupplicant (which 'Requires: libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.1.1)') can be used by
the netdev group simply specifying that in its configuration file.

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

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