Thomas Vander Stichele (thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) said: > > > 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 :) Well, it depends on what you need. If you need a daemon to have access to the devices, groups are perfectly fine. If you want to dynamically add and remove users, groups are *bad*, as Alan mentioned. Bill -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
