Le Lundi 10 Septembre 2001 21:25, Brad Felmey scribit :
> Many of them
> are going to be brand-new to UNIX-style permissions, and learning the
> intricacies of adding users to groups, or setting 666 on the appropriate
> /dev entries is ludicrous when all they want is to hear an mp3 play on
> their shiny new Linux box. 99% of them just plain won't do it, and will
> show up in
> alt.os.linux-mandrake and ZDNet talkbacks saying things like "Linux SUCKS"
> because even their old Win9x setup could do something simple like play a
> song without 2 months of reading man pages and guesswork.

they don't read user guide. I wonder if we need such users at this time. 
maybe they should read this : 
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

> 660 is fine for expert install with higher than "medium" security chosen,
> but for a Average Joe install, it's going to be a real turn-off to the new
> user, and just plain unnecessary, unless you're trying to sabotage the
> entire user-friendly point of using Mandrake in the first place.

It may be possible to add trivial group ( audio, cdrom ) to the user group by 
default if he create the user with userdrake ( must depends on the security 
level ).
ask to vince

[will@bastard downloads]$ rpmmon.pl -p userdrake
vince

or else we may force the user to read the docs and manuals

-- 
Copyleft Faber's prod. 2001
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/linux_wizard/index.html

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