On 8/17/05, Alan L Tyree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In fact, it seems to me > that later users have (by default) too few privileges, at least for use > in a home environment. I'm not saying that is wrong, but in a home > environment you probably want to allow secondary users to use the CD, > connect to the Internet, audio devices, etc. The default new user has > none of these rights. Dead easy to add them through the graphical > user/group controls though.
Personally, I setup libpam-devperm instead - this changes the ownerships of specified devices (for example, the sound devices like /dev/dsp) to the user who is logging in. In my experence, this has been easier than adding extra users to a handful of groups. I'd strongly recommend Ubuntu consider following this path - I can't see any cases where a user should be able to log in at a graphical terminal, but not allowed to use sound, or the cdrom. - Matt. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
