Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams (ivazquez(a)ivazquez.net) said:
> The only problem is that apparently it is hard for an rpm to add
a group
> when a system is being upgraded between distros; ie, while anaconda
> could add this new group just fine, people doing a dist upgrade, it is
> claimed, will not get this group installed.
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.
Bill