On Wednesday 25 July 2001 19:35, Jens Benecke wrote: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 04:47:09PM +0100, John Gay wrote: > > This seems to come up again and again. Users not in audio group or other > > access groups. Is there some reason that Debian does not include users > > into these groups by default? > > Don't let yourself be fooled by the "one-computer one-person" Windows mode > of thought. One local user, twenty remote users. Or two thousand. > > I don't want two thousand remote shell users to compete with me over one > audio device, the output of which only I can hear. Think "remote user > uploads and plays thrash metal MP3 files in the middle of the night". > > > I can't see why you would want to not include a user into one of these > > groups. > > I can. > Thanks for the info, I wasn't thinking about remote users, but that's why I suggest an option.
> > Could it not be part of the installation to ask if all users should be > > included in groups like audio and such? > > THAT would be an option I would welcome. As long as it stays an option. Exactly! Cheers, John Gay ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------