Le 12/01/04 à 08:57 Michael Schuerig (michael@schuerig.de) écrivait : > > Installing xmms will not fiddle with group "audio". > > Why exactly should be done for group "cdrom"? > > At least users need to be informed about the required group membership. > I don't yet see why they should not be given an option to change it > there and then. 1) You can be sure to detect all users (NIS, LDAP users) 2) Debconf is used on a package for configuring the package, not for general administrative task : adding an user to the cdrom group in k3b will "generate" changes for others programms as well. > True, it doesn't have to be, but in its current incarnation k3b checks > for this. Effectively, only the cdrecord.* binaries need to be suid > root, but k3b doesn't know about them and thus can't check them. Should > it just assume they're setup appropriately? No it can check, if if it isn't it should warn user to dpkg-reconfigure cdrecord, and check that the user is in the cdrom group. -- Jean-Michel Kelbert
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