Quoting Andrew Pollock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Bit of a mouthful of a subject.
I'm wondering if it would be beneficial to automatically add the non-root user created by base-config to a few groups, e.g. cdrom, floppy, audio, video?
s/by base-config/by shadow
Let's assume the case of someone using d-i to install Sarge on a machine that will be that person's desktop (hey that's me!). Most likely it will only have the one user. The installation will be more useful "out of the box" for that non-priviledged user if that user can access the cdrom, and the floppy drive and make noises come out of the speakers.
See bug reports for the shadow package.....This feature has been asked several times but its implications are non-trivial.
Suggestions have been made for adding this in base-config if, for some valid reasons, this is not implemented in shadow.
This really seems to belong in adduser and there are outstanding wishlist bugs asking for this (36019 and 147518).
See also http://www.hbg-bremen.de/~roland/code/adduser.xhtml
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