[arch-general] systemd and local group membership

[Daniel Micay]

On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 4:26 AM, Dave Morgan
<davemorgan353 at 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.