ownership of devices

[Bill Nottingham]

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams (ivazquez at 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