Hi, Am Donnerstag, den 22.01.2009, 16:58 -0500 schrieb Stefan Monnier: > > Right, for inclusion in the official package, a group should be chosen. > > Maybe dialout? The name sounds promising, and given the lack of serial > > ports on the FreeRunner, I don’t think there will be many users who want > > to separate the groups for phoning and for use of the serial port. > > I created the `monnier' user via adduser without providing any special > group privilege instructions, and `monnier' ended up in many groups, > including `dialout' and `staff'. > I'm not sure what are the intentions behind those groups, really. > > To me, having access to GPS info and to shutdown/suspend commands is > rather unrelated to `dialout', but I'm not convinced `staff' is a much > better choice either.
Well, there are different dbus interfaces. So one could put them in different group (powerdev, dialout, plugdev, netdev...) but that’s overkill. Maybe a default-to-all is just fine, and documenting that one should replace “context="default"” with “user="me"” if one wants to lock it down. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nome...@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nome...@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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