On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 02:17:20PM +0200, Sébastien Villemot wrote: > Michael Hanke <m...@debian.org> writes: > > > On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 10:45:25AM +0200, Sébastien Villemot wrote: > >> - I had not noticed this problem, since my dedicated MATLAB user is in > >> the "src" group, which has the necessary permissions. > > > > Which makes me wonder whether this might be a good model for such user, > > and whether we should suggest such setup in the matlab-support > > documentation? > > This is what I was about to suggest you in the first place. > > Then I realized that, unless the dedicated user is *automatically* added > to the "src" group, packages depending on matlab-support have to assume > that the dedicated user is not in this group. > > So I think matlab-support should either automatically add the dedicated > user to the "src" group, or otherwise leave it as it is.
Good point. I'll think about possible side-effects, but right now I tend to agree. Michael -- Michael Hanke http://mih.voxindeserto.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org