On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Roger Leigh wrote:

> HAL is just querying the group database directly.  Any process can of
> course do this.  But it's asking a different question, namely:
> what groups is this user a member of in the group database.

This is of course broken.  It breaks granting console users access to
the netdev or powerdev groups through pam_groups, which is really really
annoying when you get your users from say ldap.

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