-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 18 May 2007, Modestas Vainius was heard to say: > 2007 m. May 18 d., Friday, Curt Howland rašė: > > Just like the single user on the machine not being added to the > > powerdev group automatically. If it had, we wouldn't be having > > this discussion. > > Installer did this since sarge (for audio, video, cdrom, floppy, > plugdev, dialout, dip and similar), iirc. By the way, this is done > only for the user you create during installation. If you create a > new user manually, you also have to add to the groups manually.
I understand. All the problems I have run into have been for the user created during installation. > Do > you select the desktop task in tasksel? No, I do not use tasksel. > I'm not really sure about 'powerdev' group, it's pretty new. But I > believe Etch installer should definitely add the user to this group > when you choose 'laptop' task. At the end of the install, it does present me with the tasksel options, I unselect desktop (because I do not want GNOME) and leave laptop and standard. These problems still occurred. > > What user, new to Linux, is even going to know the addgroup > > command exists? Or after 12 years of using Debian, someone like > > myself who finds it more efficient to just change the permissions > > on the device that seems to be broken? > > Making permissions 777 you sacrifice security for "ease of use" and > convinience. It's your choice. Since "addgroup" was unknown until yesterday, I didn't sacrifice anything for convenience. I fixed a problem that otherwise would make the machine _UNUSABLE_. So sure, "it's my choice", but that or go back to Windows? Yeah, some choice. You might also notice that, with my rhetorical question about problems that it might cause, I am fully aware that adding a user to every group sacrifices security. - -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and central planning advocates in American history -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBRk3sRS9Y35yItIgBAQJ4gQf/SMgDpzhpK/HHwTjA9J6aZpvU+eD3/KHt waUxn8VTTd0aP/DD4lFKepf7HJKL/jArdFgxM6Mo2lLXUOfLBQhffeplgFtKLIDS DyoukUJqpEBapqD9EjxkYXHivQ2HCV3jHYosb6bI2iby5MyeGszv64I5wqXJPY6a WSq6OrRih6tdF5faKemYtrWBW84cywdqRtp7mfIq8KWUmOlM0gyZSCLWaitHUtdl V/tJ8PmnlipLe4S79zLGjl+0r3bDrbpHyCki0A1yfIpr0v1UxJfzHQmy3351IiiI dU36Jqvm5Ii+H2qItKQOA8SrKImKbMaUNf3225M946Q5i4bJLIPupw== =m4d3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
