Re: Creating a jackuser group

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On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 06:01 -0800, Anthony Green wrote:
> The plan that was discussed on fedora-music-list was to wrap qjackctl in
> a script that checked to see if the user was part of the jackuser group
> and, if not, popped up a dialog box asking if they wanted to join
> (requiring root password via consolehelper script).

How on earth can this be considered a good user experience? Please don't
bother the user with such questions; fix the base system instead and
please do this without having secret UNIX groups that one has to be part
of. It's just _broken_ using group membership for such things. Thanks.

     David


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