On 01-03-2007, Gabor Gombas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 10:54:19PM +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > >> So a *fix* for this issue could be only inside udev package. >> In all other places, only workarounds are possible. >> And these workarounds do have the following drawbacks. >> >> - if base-passwd will be used as workaround location, this will create a >> situation when changes to default udev configuration files, introducing >> references to new groups or removing references to old ones, will cause >> need of base-files update - which is increased complexity and will cause >> out-of-sync situations; > > My opinion is quite the opposite. Decisions like "all scanners should be > owned by the 'scanner' group" are distro-wide policy, and udev is just > one of the possible implementors of such policy. So the policy should > not be in udev (anyone can write an udev replacement any day). In fact, > MAKEDEV _should_ use the same group on a static /dev; how do you want to > enforce that? (Yes, I realize that MAKEDEV does not have the same amount > of information and therefore can not make such fine-grained decisions as > udev). > > Also, on my system the udev configuration references 17 groups of which > 12 is already present in /usr/share/base-passwd/group.master. I do not > see any reason not to add the remaining 5 and be done with it. > >
I think it is a good idea to add all this group to standard groups. Don't forget to also add __user__ to these files (tss for example) Regards, Sylvain Le Gall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
