On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 2:32 PM, Ulrich Mueller <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, 8 Feb 2018, William Hubbs wrote:
>
>> First, baselayout has had the "dialout" group since 2015, so the
>> longterm fix imo is to possibly use that instead of the uucp group.
>> What would it take to make that happen, or are we stuck with the
>> uucp group forever?
>
> There was an old discussion on this in bug 108249 [1]. The decision
> back in 2005 was to use the "uucp" group (because apparently that was
> what both Debian and Fedora did at the time), but IIRC it was pretty
> much arbitrary.
>
> So I don't see a reason why we couldn't use "dialout" instead.
>
UUCP doesn't have any intrinsic relationship with modems, though it
probably finds (found) most use over modems. Was "dialout" or "tty"
changed to "uucp" for some reason?
If possible please use dialout, as very few modems are teletypes.
It makes the most sense to me to give a uucp user dialout or tty
permission, instead of adding myself to the uucp group, a name which
references programs most people won't have installed and won't know
about.
Cheers,
R0b0t1
