Re: Why is greetd greeter user in so many groups?

[Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.]

Lars-Dominik Braun <l...@6xq.net> writes:

I believe wheel is necessary to write logs to /var/log, because 
they
don’t go through the syslog. audio maybe for GTK-based greeter 
with
accessibility (i.e. TTS), but I’m not sure to be honest.

Only root can write to /var/log, so wheel is irrelevant. And, 
indeed, greetd logs are being written as root:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
psyduck:~% ls -la /var/log
total 7028
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root     560 Jun 19 14:10 ./
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root      64 Jun 20 18:09 ../
   […]
-rw-r----- 1 root root    1694 Jun 20 16:12 greetd-1.log
-rw-r----- 1 root root    8035 Jun 19 21:10 greetd-2.log
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

-bjc