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. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-gtk-gnome-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caktje6e2uv-yrxgoyrtapyji+4my2ymmb_5vuavn9nzebct...@mail.gmail.com
