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Hello guys,
from the beginning of my arch usage I'd put myself into the groups the beginners guide recommended. But which of them are today still useful and which of them simply unneeded?
Here's my list of groups I'm in:
[orschiro@thinkpad ~]$ groups
network video audio optical storage users abs
To concretise my question: would my network still work when I'm not in network or would my intel graphic setup with kms display everything correctly when I'm not in video? Would I have sound without audio group? [...]
Best regards
Last edited by orschiro (2010-05-24 08:26:59)
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allan@mugen ~
> groups
allan
Things seem to work here
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Why have a group named after your name? Confusing.
> groups
users
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Why have a group named after your name? Confusing.
Hmm... never really thought about it. It is the default bahaviour in Fedora/Ret Hat.
> groups users
Does anyone actually find the users group useful? Especially if everyone is a member.... Giving everyone permission for something can be handled with standard file permssions.
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users, wheel, audio
"audio" seems to be necessary, seeing as I'm the only one using this computer "users" and "wheel" are probably redundant.
Last edited by dptkby (2010-05-24 10:35:35)
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Wheel group was essential in my gnome install to use gksu.
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"audio" seems to be necessary, seeing as I'm the only one using this computer "users" and "wheel" are probably redundant.
I thought that too but I kicked myself out of it for testing purposes, rebooted machine and alsa is still working fine here.
So generally spoken most groups are completely unneeded today?
Last edited by orschiro (2010-05-24 10:58:33)
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http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Groups
Great thing.
so here is my 2cents.
because we know have polkit & consolekit, when a user is authenticated using that, it has the right privileges and groups are not needed. how can you use that?
1) by using a graphical login manager that can do that automatically. only gdm and kdm can
2) in .xinitrc, use "exec ck-launch-session wm"
Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
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Having a group named the same as your user is default in ubuntu aswell. You tend to find this out with nfs shares when you have a server/client ubuntu/arch mix
Anyway for the record
gary@Lister ~ $ groups
wheel games audio optical storage users vboxusers usbmux
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