On Sat, 2012-06-02 at 08:46 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > If the widget allowed an admin user to give modem access to a regular > user, that might have been a useful feature in a GUI widget. I'm fairly certain that was how I remember it working. > If the widget set the modem port to be world accessible, well, that is > a definite mis-feature in the current world. Such things may have > seemed to make sense to some people Unfortunately, too many people want that. SELinux stops something I want to do, turn it off, rather than configure it... Can't share files across the network because they've got user ID mixups, make everything world read/writable, rather than fix ID issues... Unfortunately, the documentation about using groups is far from good, any time that I've had a look at it. It tends to only be advice on this mailing list that tells you that it's useful to add yourself to the /this/ group and /that/ group to be able to do what you want, without badly compromising the setup, or having to jump through hoops to make what you want to work. The distro is heavily GUI-centric, but many GUIs are not very self explanatory. Yes, I can see various (apparently) system groups, or software groups (such as apache), if I look in the user editor. But I don't know if the "disk" group or something-else group is something that I'm supposed to add myself to, to grant access (so I can mount discs). Or, whether it's a group that the system uses for itself (how *it* manages discs). *Because* these groups are not explained. Not in the user configurator, nor anywhere else obvious, that I can see, on the installation. And, no, it's not good enough to go trawling through the net to find out traditional uses for some of these groups, because random advice may not apply to your specific situation. Even standard advice needs interpretation, such as how the file system hierarchy specs are not quite the same as being used. And, certainly, having to hop onto the net to find documentation about how to connect to the net (through your modem), is a chicken and egg situation. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
