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[Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>]

On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 11:15:11PM +0200, Karsten Behrmann wrote:
> > On Aug 09, Karsten Behrmann [BearPerson AT gmx.net] wrote:
> > > Hi all!
> > > Just wanted to use this thread to get a general opinion on what should 
> > > be
> > > in the ISO /etc/passwd and /etc/group. We have a minimum at [0], but 
> > > static
> > > /dev or udev already wants a few groups not in there. However, I'd 
> > > kindof
> > > like to keep the lists minimal. Why would you want to have a MySQL user 
> > > if you
> > > never had it installed?
> > 
> > Like I mentioned in IRC a bit ago, I think we should add the wheel group 
> > to
> > this list.  Right now we don't define wheel at all and that's kind of odd.
> > Production systems with multiple administrators expect to use that group,
> > for those boxes it's much more important than 'audio'.
> 
> no "audio" group will make our /dev system fail though. no wheel doesn't
> kill anyone directly...

Our packages install as root:root, not root:wheel.  Perhaps we can have 
an option to sorcery to install root:root files as root:wheel?

(idea being, set the option, then rebuild).

Having an easy way to use a wheel-based group admin system gives one 
less reason for admins to choose another distro.

Seth

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