Control: reopen -1 Quoting Simon McVittie (2023-08-30 12:20:07) > On Wed, 30 Aug 2023 at 11:44:56 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > > [iwd] triggers a warning on every start or reload of dbus: > > > > Aug 08 20:01:51 pluto dbus-daemon[706]: Unknown group "wheel" in message bus > > configuration file > > > > I do consider this a bug in the configuration that is shipped by the iwd > > package. > > I agree with Michael. Debian packages should only refer to groups > that are reserved by base-passwd, the package itself, or the package's > dependencies. > > This is arguably even a security issue: the "wheel" group name is not > reserved on Debian systems, so there would be nothing preventing a > user (presumably one without knowledge of 1980s Unix tradition or > conventional group names in non-Debian distros) from creating a new > user/group of that name, not expecting that it would grant extra > privileges. > > The closest Debian equivalent of other distros' wheel group is the > sudo group, as defined by base-passwd.
Thanks for the clarification. Makes good sense (and sorry, Michael, that I didn't recognized that from your original bugreport). - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ * Sponsorship: https://ko-fi.com/drjones [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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