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On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 9:10 AM The Bit Pit <thebitpit@×××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> On 8/24/19 5:11 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: |
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> > On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 5:28 PM The Bit Pit <thebitpit@×××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> >> Group is not needed. mythtv uses the video group. This is already in my pull request #12763 to bump to version 30.0 patch. I added myself as proxy maintainer to acct-user/mythtv |
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> > I assume it is in the video group so that it can access device nodes in /dev? |
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> That is correct. |
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> mythtv also creates and displays many video files shared with other |
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> applications. I thought the "video" group was a way to permit that. Is |
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> there a better way than putting them in the "video" group? |
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The video group is primarily used by udev to grant access to graphics |
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hardware. Using the video group to control access to video recording |
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files seems wrong to me. |
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If you need a common group to allow access to files shared among |
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several applications, you should probably create a separate group for |
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that. |
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> > It might be a nice idea to give it its own primary group id, This |
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> > ensures that files it creates will not be automatically exposed to any |
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> > other random users that are members of the "video" group. You can add |
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> > it to as many supplementary groups as you need. |
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> >> I need you to create a acct-group/uucp as it is not in the tree yet. |
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> > Please note that recent versions of udev/systemd use the "dialout" |
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> > group for serial devices instead of the old "uucp" group. You might |
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> > want to just switch over to that. |
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> I agree and withdraw my request for "uucp" group. It is in out of date |
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> mythtv documentation and the previous ebuild. |
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> Should I check the use flags for flags enabling support for devices |
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> needing "dialout" group and modify the installed mythtv user rather than |
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> including group "dialout" in the "acct-user/mythtv" package? |
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I'm not sure it would be appropriate to modify the group membership of |
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the mythtv user within the media-tv/mythtv ebuild. |
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Maybe you could add USE flags to control group membership in the |
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acct-user/mythtv ebuild. You could then depend on these USE flags |
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withing the media-tv/mythtv ebuild as needed. |
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Or maybe I'm over-complicating this; opinions welcome. |
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