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On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 2:32 PM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
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>>>>>> On Thu, 8 Feb 2018, William Hubbs wrote: |
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>> First, baselayout has had the "dialout" group since 2015, so the |
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>> longterm fix imo is to possibly use that instead of the uucp group. |
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>> What would it take to make that happen, or are we stuck with the |
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>> uucp group forever? |
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> There was an old discussion on this in bug 108249 [1]. The decision |
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> back in 2005 was to use the "uucp" group (because apparently that was |
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> what both Debian and Fedora did at the time), but IIRC it was pretty |
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> much arbitrary. |
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> So I don't see a reason why we couldn't use "dialout" instead. |
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UUCP doesn't have any intrinsic relationship with modems, though it |
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probably finds (found) most use over modems. Was "dialout" or "tty" |
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changed to "uucp" for some reason? |
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If possible please use dialout, as very few modems are teletypes. |
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It makes the most sense to me to give a uucp user dialout or tty |
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permission, instead of adding myself to the uucp group, a name which |
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references programs most people won't have installed and won't know |
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about. |
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Cheers, |
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R0b0t1 |
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