This one time, at band camp, Steve Langasek said: > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:37:59AM +0100, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > > > > But if the collective opinion of the project is that the issue does not > > > exist then I will happily close bugs like #516149 and tell users to live > > > with it. Please advise. > > > They should add this group to their ldap database. At least it should > > be documented that debian system need this group. BTW redhat has also > > rdma, fuse, kvm group. > > No, they should not. The system groups referenced by udev should instead > always be present in /etc/group. Or, possibly better, the udev rules for groups dynamically added by other packages should be moved to those other packages. In general, I like that better than dropping groups from the system on the basis of either a random change in some other distribution or not knowing whether or not they're still useful. > However, I wonder if Marco isn't arguing on the basis of old information; > lookups for LDAP at boot time should not result in long timeouts, and it's a > bug in nss_ldap/libldap if they do - a bug which I thought had been > addressed by now. It's fine if ldap comes second in nsswitch, although it's still a bit painful if ldap is first in the group lookup (I don't know whether this is actually still necessary, but some old configurations use it to override system groups). Cheers, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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