2009/5/4 Old Crankbuster <crankbus...@gmail.com>: > > Coming from Gnu/Linux, I see differences in group generation on regular > user generation, and there's a group I'm not familiar with - 'operator'. > > What does that one do?
Members of "operator" can run /sbin/shutdown among other things. find / -group operator can answer better than I ever could. > > I'm familiar with 'staff' and I've added my normal user to that, and of > course 'wheel'. > > I intend to use the system on a laptop in this case, and need to enable > regular user access to audio, cdrom/dvd read and write, usb access, and > network reconfiguration/dialout, games and so forth. > > I am not seeing such things as plugdev,audio,cdrom in etc/group after > initial install. > > Do I need to manually add such groups and then point relevant packages > to them? > Various methods apply (for instance /dev/dspN.n is world writable), man 5 devfs.conf is a good start for some of that. Best of luck. -- -- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
