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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

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On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Jeremy Blosser (emrys) wrote:
> On Oct 18, Flavien Bridault [f.bridault AT fra.net] wrote:
<snip>
> > Well, at least cdrom, floppy and disk. I thought there were default ?
>
> No, as noted, the latest iso does not create the cdrom group.
>
> > But maybe they were created by the ISO I used in those old times... ;-)
> > Otherwise I need to create them in udev spell.
>
> You need to at least check for it before using it.  We have a bug report in
> IRC on this failing for one person so far.

Packages should use create_account/create_group for users/groups they
need to work.

<snip>
> > No it changes the owner group, the owner is still root, i.e. here on my
> > box :
>
> If we're changing permissions on existing devices it's bad whether it's
> user or group.  People could already have their access set up how they want
> it using the groups already there.  But I'm still not sure if we're talking
> about changing permissions on existing installs or just defaults for new
> ones.

It sounds like these changes only change the default
permissions/ownership, if the user setup their own rules then those
override the defaults, correct?
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Eric Sandall                     |  Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
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http://eric.sandall.us/          |  SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @ WSU
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