Re: ownership of devices

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On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 20:22 +0200, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
> A lot of other distributions solve this simply by creating a group for
> these devices, "audio", "sound", "media", whatever.  Then normal users
> get added to this group, and rpms can as part of the install add their
> newly-created user to this group, and everyone is happy.
> 
> The only problem is that apparently it is hard for an rpm to add a group
> when a system is being upgraded between distros; ie, while anaconda
> could add this new group just fine, people doing a dist upgrade, it is
> claimed, will not get this group installed.

I seem to recall a long-winded discussion about the fedora-usermgmt
package. Perhaps it's time to move it into Core and make it responsible
for creating the groups if needed.

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