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Duncan, |
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It should be pointed out that Gentoo already has something very close to |
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what I'm suggesting here. /etc/login.defs has a setting, |
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CONSOLE_GROUPS, which defines the "groups to add to the user's |
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supplementary group set when logging in on the console". The default, |
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reasonably, is to add no groups, but uncommenting the setting in this |
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file adds groups floppy, audio and cdrom. |
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Rather than describing this as a "very Bad Thing" the comments in the |
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file simply instruct the sysadmin to "Use with caution". |
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Unfortunately, this setting won't work with Hal and plugdev, which |
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relies entirely on reading /etc/group. |
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On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 04:32 +0000, Duncan wrote: |
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> Lindsay said .... |
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> > It would be a Good Thing if new local accounts could be added to group |
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> > plugdev when they're created. |
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> It would *NOT* be a "Good Thing" (r), and in fact, would be a very "Bad |
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> Thing" (r) to do this automatically when new users are created, as that |
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> kills important aspects of the Unix/Linux security model, the entire |
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> reason the generic "users" group isn't used in the first place. There |
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> are good reasons sysadmins may not WANT every user to have automount |
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> rights, and it's already possible to expand your newuser scripts locally |
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> to automatically add a user to various groups, if you as sysadmin decide |
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> that's what you want to do. |
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