Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams (ivazquez@xxxxxxxxxxxx) said: > > 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. Dynamically modified groups + setgid programs are a poor solution for device access. Runtime ACLs done via HAL is probably a better solution - I remember Colin having some ideas in this area. Bill -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
