On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 14:15:00 -0500 (EST), Sam Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
The problem is fairly simple. Some of our users actually want to
use their systems once they get it installed. Particularly, they'd
like to be able to do things like play sound, access their floppy
drives and
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 14:15:00 -0500 (EST), Sam Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
The proposal in bug #166718 and the bugs merged with it is for the
initial user to be added to some set of groups. Karl does not like
this proposal because it only solves the problem for the initial
user. That's
Previously Raul Miller wrote:
However, it would probably be a good idea to give the people who have
security concerns an easy way of avoiding this solution when building
large sets of machines.
This is largely orthogonal to the current issue, but it would be nice if
d-i had a 'select machine
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sam Hartman) writes:
The problem is fairly simple. Some of our users actually want to use
their systems once they get it installed.
;-)
Perhaps when Debian and the FHS originally made this decision, users
could be expected to simply add themselves to groups if they
Manoj == Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Manoj On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 14:15:00 -0500 (EST), Sam Hartman
Manoj [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Manoj It seems to me that this ought to be local policy. Can
Manoj you explain to me how the proposed solutions take site
Manoj
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 10:19:42PM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote:
Agreed. Traditionally, however, Unix has not been in the practice of
being easy to use. We should be careful, not hidebound.
That depends.
Once upon a time, security wasn't much of an issue, and ease of use for
the casual user was
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