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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
To: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Cc: thebitpit@×××××××××.net
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Reserve mythtv user UID 103
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2019 22:11:32
Message-Id: CAJ0EP43Ey82879UgUAB05Titw07NcGwpx-uRoOkWf5OVmJvgWA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Reserve mythtv user UID 103 by The Bit Pit
1 On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 5:28 PM The Bit Pit <thebitpit@×××××××××.net> wrote:
2 >
3 > 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
4
5 I assume it is in the video group so that it can access device nodes in /dev?
6
7 It might be a nice idea to give it its own primary group id, This
8 ensures that files it creates will not be automatically exposed to any
9 other random users that are members of the "video" grooup. You can add
10 it to as many supplementary groups as you need.
11
12 > I need you to create a acct-group/uucp as it is not in the tree yet.
13
14 Please note that recent versions of udev/systemd use the "dialout"
15 group for serial devices instead of the old "uucp" group. You might
16 want to just switch over to that.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Reserve mythtv user UID 103 The Bit Pit <thebitpit@×××××××××.net>