Le 02/04/2012 03:51, Paul Wise a écrit : > On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 3:48 AM, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote: > >> Every now and then I am revisiting the "default group" issue for my >> lab's gnome desktop. I recently built a new image, and last time (a few >> years ago), I found that in fact very few groups were required to be >> added to each user (plugdev and fuse and pulse-rt, IIRC). >> However, http://wiki.debian.org/DebianDesktopHowTo lists many more of >> these groups: audio, plugdev, camera, video, floppy, cdrom, tape and >> maybe scanner, fax, dip (for "dial-ip", ppp connections to Internet with >> pon/poff as set up by pppconfig) or dialout (full serial ports/modem >> access). >> >> Has anyone knowledge of wether these groups could be useful in some >> cases that I didn't foresee or couldn't test? I do not think any of >> these are still useful (but I do not own a camera, and I am not sure how >> one can see whether pulse-rt is useful or not). Sincerly, > > These days upstreams (inc GNOME) are moving from adding groups to > using ConsoleKit and PolicyKit so I suggest ignoring all the groups > since most of them are legacy. > I tried it, and apparently fuse is still required (for example, to sync tomboy notes by ssh). I just wait for somebody with a USB key to test whether plugdev is still necessary. I am still pondering if I add these groups through adduser or to /etc/security/group.conf. I did not find a way to mix fuse permissions and policykit or consolekit. -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq
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