Frans Pop wrote:
I disagree with this proposed change. IMO the default group assignments are
in line with the purpose of the first user account.
I have three reasons to feel otherwise:
1. IIRC, the reason for adding the initial user to groups has been to provide
a good desktop experience.
On Thu 25 Mar, Joey Hess wrote:
Frans Pop wrote:
I disagree with this proposed change. IMO the default group assignments are
in line with the purpose of the first user account.
I have three reasons to feel otherwise:
1. IIRC, the reason for adding the initial user to groups has been to
Package: user-setup
Version: 1.28
Tags:patch
In squeeze, the desktop uses consolekit and friends to grant access to
devices for the user in front on the screen. This scale a lot better
when there is a lot of users in LDAP or NIS that need to get access to
the local devices on their own
On Wednesday 24 March 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
The code in user-setup-apply to add the first user to all the groups
in passwd/user-default-groups should no longer be needed. I believe
it should be dropped for Squeeze, or at least the default groups used
should be trimmed down to
[Frans Pop]
What about (server) systems that don't have consolekit installed?
Yes, what about them?
If the local user to have special privileges, one should install the
packages providing such privileges to the local user.
What harm do the current group assignments do? After all, we're only
On Wednesday 24 March 2010, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
What about (server) systems that don't have consolekit installed?
Yes, what about them?
On such systems the first user would be left without expected default
access to devices.
If the local user to have special privileges, one should
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