[gentoo-user] Am I missing any groups?

[gentoo-user] Am I missing any groups?

[Walter Dnes]

  At times, I don't see the point of so many groups.  Here's my
"/root/bin/u_add" script, which I invoke as...

u_add newusername

#!/bin/bash
useradd -g users -G audio,cdrom,dialout,floppy,games,plugdev,usb,uucp,video,wheel -m -s /bin/bash $1

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Re: [gentoo-user] Am I missing any groups?

[Hemmann, Volker Armin]

On Sonntag, 29. April 2007, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   At times, I don't see the point of so many groups.  Here's my
> "/root/bin/u_add" script, which I invoke as...
>
> u_add newusername
>
> #!/bin/bash
> useradd -g users -G
> audio,cdrom,dialout,floppy,games,plugdev,usb,uucp,video,wheel -m -s
> /bin/bash $1

plugdev? uucp?
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Re: [gentoo-user] Am I missing any groups?

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 09:50:04 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:

> > #!/bin/bash
> > useradd -g users -G
> > audio,cdrom,dialout,floppy,games,plugdev,usb,uucp,video,wheel -m -s
> > /bin/bash $1  
> 
> plugdev? uucp?

plugdev is needed to mount devices with HAL/pmount.

uucp probably isn't needed unless you use some serial port hardware.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Am I missing any groups?

[Hemmann, Volker Armin]

On Sonntag, 29. April 2007, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 09:50:04 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> > > #!/bin/bash
> > > useradd -g users -G
> > > audio,cdrom,dialout,floppy,games,plugdev,usb,uucp,video,wheel -m -s
> > > /bin/bash $1
> >
> > plugdev? uucp?
>
> plugdev is needed to mount devices with HAL/pmount.
>
> uucp probably isn't needed unless you use some serial port hardware.

oh, ok. I don't use hal/pmount and never serial stuff.

My groups:
tty lp wheel audio cdrom dialout tape video games cdrw usb users lpadmin 
portage
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Re: [gentoo-user] Am I missing any groups?

[Walter Dnes]

On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 09:00:56AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote

> uucp probably isn't needed unless you use some serial port hardware.

  I vaguely seem to recall needing it for dialup access at one point.
Dialup obviously uses the serial port.  Has that been removed?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Am I missing any groups?

[Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman]

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Walter Dnes wrote:
>   I vaguely seem to recall needing it for dialup access at one point.
> Dialup obviously uses the serial port.  Has that been removed?

Talking about uucp, I plugged my palm today (Visor module) via usb, and /dev/ttyUSB0 was uucp-group
owned. I changed the udev rules to match the usb group. I should check the bugzilla...

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