groups [was: Wvdial and mysterious /dev/ttyS0 permission change]

[David Morse <svref@yahoo.com>]

Alexander Fitterling wrote:
> PS this Debian concept with separate group permissions is very efficient and I 
> think gives more transparency as you would install programms as suid bit and 
> must run as root. Also chmod 666 to devices as done by different 
> distritbutions seems wired to me.

I've never really understood it.  When I add a user I want them to be 
able to USE the blorking computer, not some crippled subset of the 
computer dreamed up by someone who is thinking about Multics.  I don't 
want to remember that I have to add them to groups: audio, dialout, dip, 
etcetera.  The list of these groups seems never clearly defined, and I 
whenever I add a user it seems they've invented some new group that I've 
never heard of.  Is there some way to say "and every gid above 1000 gets 
auto-membership to these groups: audio, dip, yaddayadda"?