Re: ownership of devices

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Hi,
 
> > 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.


There is always a $(SOLUTION + 1) to any problem.  I don't particularly
see that as being a good reason to not do something useful to solve this
problem in the meantime, especially if the mentioned $(SOLUTION + 1) is
vaporware :)

Thomas

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