Re: adduser doesn't quite get it

[Jesse Keating]

On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 07:30 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
>  A user added with the adduser command doesn't seem to have as
> many
>  privileges as one added from the GUI.  The obvious one is the ability to
>  use the sound system.  That was the problem with xmms. 
Which command line tool did you use to create the user?  IIRC one of
them (luseradd) uses libuser as the backend, which can set the selinux
permissions correctly where as useradd does not.  That could be the key
missing thing.  Did you check for selinux denials?

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