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Breakage

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dbus and hal groups, the wiki.

Hey,

I was just reading though the beginners wiki and saw about the dbus and hal groups.
Should I add my user account to them? The wiki said about adding a user to the groups via usermod..

usermod -aG audio,video,floppy,lp,optical,network,storage,wheel,dbus,hal USERNAME

But I installed hal via reading our hal wiki and it says..

For dbus and hal to function properly, local user accounts must be members of the following groups: optical, storage. To achieve this, open a terminal and type the following commands as root:

# gpasswd -a username optical
# gpasswd -a username storage

Which I have done but it doesn't mention about the hal and dbus groups, so is just adding my account to optical and storage sufficient?

Or will adding my account to the hal and dbus groups give me any benefit or cause harm ?

fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

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Re: dbus and hal groups, the wiki.

Your user doesn't need to be in the hal and dbus groups.

Edit: I fixed the info in the wiki.

Last edited by fwojciec (2008-02-29 21:19:40)

Breakage

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From: London

Registered: 2008-02-12

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Re: dbus and hal groups, the wiki.

Thanks for the info.