On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 03:44:05PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> reassign 513964 base-passwd
> retitle 513964 please add netdev and powerdev groups to group.master
> thanks
>
> Le mardi 24 février 2009 à 15:39 +0100, Josselin Mouette a écrit :
> > > My user (again 'jon') is not in powerdev or netdev but is
> > > in plugdev. I did not have networking for the VM so it only
> > > installed "standard". I'm pretty convinced that it must be
> > > the tasksel sub-component of d-i that adds the user to the
> > > powerdev group.
> >
> > Looking at the (trivial) code of user-setup (the component that creates
> > the user and adds it to the groups), I can definitely not understand how
> > this can happen.
>
> And of course, the reason is that the groups don’t exist if you didn’t
> select the desktop task, since they are not part of the base groups
> list.
group.master is a hard thing to change our mind about later, and frankly
I have never had the impression that these hardware access groups are
terribly stable. Why can't we just have user-setup create the groups
dynamically ('addgroup --system')? I would prefer that.
--
Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]
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