On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Daniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 4:26 AM, Dave Morgan <davemorgan353@btinternet.com> wrote:
Hi,
The systemd wiki article says:
"Note: Adding your user to groups (optical, audio, scanner, ...) is not necessary with systemd. It might even break the wanted functionality if you do so."
What are the the technical reasons for group membership breaking functionality when using systemd?
-- Dave.
ConsoleKit implement these session-based ACLs before, and now logind does. It's not really related to systemd. The reason for avoiding the audio group is that it can break software mixing. Sound with fast user switching also won't work at all if users are in the audio group.
By the way, I've updated that section in the wiki.[1] It should be a lot clearer now. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd#Supplementary_information