Re: [gentoo-user] What groups should user "root" be in?

2021-05-20 Thread Hund
On May 20, 2021 11:42:23 AM GMT+02:00, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: >Aisha, > >On Wednesday, 2021-05-19 19:14:27 -0400, you wrote: > >> ... >> Are you running your machine day-to-day as root? >> That sounds like a recipe for disaster... > >Of course not. But if that quote [1] had any substance in it

Re: [gentoo-user] What groups should user "root" be in?

2021-05-20 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Aisha, On Wednesday, 2021-05-19 19:14:27 -0400, you wrote: > ... > Are you running your machine day-to-day as root? > That sounds like a recipe for disaster... Of course not. But if that quote [1] had any substance in it, it COULD happen that some deamon running as user "root" failed because

Re: [gentoo-user] What groups should user "root" be in?

2021-05-19 Thread aisha
On 21/05/19 10:25AM, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > Greetings, > > still hunting down the reasons for my laptop not producing any sound, I > have meanwhile found reports on the web "no sound even though root is in > group audio" or "Dbus doesn't "care" who root is -- it checks the ident- > ity of the

Re: [gentoo-user] What groups should user "root" be in?

2021-05-19 Thread Dale
Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > Greetings, > > still hunting down the reasons for my laptop not producing any sound, I > have meanwhile found reports on the web "no sound even though root is in > group audio" or "Dbus doesn't "care" who root is -- it checks the ident- > ity of the account that requeste

[gentoo-user] What groups should user "root" be in?

2021-05-19 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Greetings, still hunting down the reasons for my laptop not producing any sound, I have meanwhile found reports on the web "no sound even though root is in group audio" or "Dbus doesn't "care" who root is -- it checks the ident- ity of the account that requested an action, and if that account i