Re: Desktop use (xfce) and system groups
On Ma, 01 mai 12, 13:30:13, Touko Korpela wrote: User is in (cdrom,floppy,audio,video,plugdev,scanner,netdev,bluetooth) groups but root password is asked when trying to reboot or shutdown. I'm using lightdm display manager. Do you have a terminal or xterm running as root? Try closing it first. Looks like xdm package is removed but not purged, can it cause problems? Display manager was automatically changed with task-xfce-desktop version 3.06. I don't remember did it work before. Probably doesn't matter, but I would purge xdm. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Desktop use (xfce) and system groups
Brian wrote: Hi. I'm running wheezy. Can someone give a list of groups, that desktop users should belong that video/audio playback (pulseaudio) work smoothly and they can for example shutdown/reboot system and use removable media without root password? An Xfce install can implement all those actions. It would be better if you could describe what it is you cannot do or what you want to achieve. User is in (cdrom,floppy,audio,video,plugdev,scanner,netdev,bluetooth) groups but root password is asked when trying to reboot or shutdown. I'm using lightdm display manager. Looks like xdm package is removed but not purged, can it cause problems? Display manager was automatically changed with task-xfce-desktop version 3.06. I don't remember did it work before. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120501103013.GA27104@lisko
Desktop use (xfce) and system groups
Hi. I'm running wheezy. Can someone give a list of groups, that desktop users should belong that video/audio playback (pulseaudio) work smoothly and they can for example shutdown/reboot system and use removable media without root password? Here is group listing from installed system. root daemon bin sys adm tty disk lp mail news uucp man proxy kmem dialout fax voice cdrom floppy tape sudo audio dip www-data backup operator list irc src gnats shadow utmp video sasl plugdev staff games users nogroup libuuid crontab fuse scanner messagebus Debian-exim mlocate ssh avahi-autoipd avahi netdev bluetooth lpadmin ssl-cert utempter saned lightdm ntp colord vlock pulse pulse-access rtkit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120430201603.GA2983@lisko
Re: Desktop use (xfce) and system groups
On Mon 30 Apr 2012 at 23:16:03 +0300, Touko Korpela wrote: Hi. I'm running wheezy. Can someone give a list of groups, that desktop users should belong that video/audio playback (pulseaudio) work smoothly and they can for example shutdown/reboot system and use removable media without root password? An Xfce install can implement all those actions. It would be better if you could describe what it is you cannot do or what you want to achieve. Here is group listing from installed system. [List of groups snipped] Looks ok. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120430222356.GU3883@desktop
