[arch-general] coping with damaging updates

Leonid Isaev lisaev at umail.iu.edu
Thu Oct 27 14:59:00 EDT 2011


On (10/27/11 19:29), Mauro Santos wrote:
-~> On 27-10-2011 17:48, Manolo Martínez wrote:
-~> > On 10/27/11 at 11:24am, Leonid Isaev wrote:
-~> >> you should let console-kit do the permission granting. In fact, on a modern
-~> >> linux system you only have to be a member of 1 group: users.
-~> > 
-~> > And wheel? 
-~> > 
-~> 
-~> And video, uucp, kvm, just to name a few.
-~> 
-~> -- 
-~> Mauro Santos

Fine: s/modern linux system/modern linux desktop system/. But, are you sure
you understand the difference between local and remote users?

In fact, you don't need to be a member of video (at least my webcam works
fine). Kvm is useful, but I wouldn't be surprised if in fedora 16 (and
then in all other distros), kvm would be managed by ck as well.

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Leonid Isaev
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