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From: Lars-Dominik Braun <lars@6xq.net>
To: kiasoc5 <kiasoc5@disroot.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why is greetd greeter user in so many groups?
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2022 16:17:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YrMkgmDwmxgYvR7T@philomena> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220621043327.21e0d15b@aria>

Hi,

I merged greetd.

>          (group "wheel")
>          (supplementary-groups '("users" "tty" "input" "video"
> "audio"))
> […]
> I can understand the need for tty and input, but why does the
> greeter user need the wheel and audio?
I believe wheel is necessary to write logs to /var/log, because they
don’t go through the syslog. audio maybe for GTK-based greeter with
accessibility (i.e. TTS), but I’m not sure to be honest.

Lars



  reply	other threads:[~2022-06-22 14:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-21  4:33 Why is greetd greeter user in so many groups? kiasoc5
2022-06-22 14:17 ` Lars-Dominik Braun [this message]
2022-06-22 14:24   ` Brian Cully via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2022-06-23 10:41     ` Lars-Dominik Braun
2022-06-23 12:15       ` Brian Cully via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2022-06-29  7:41         ` Lars-Dominik Braun
2022-06-29 17:59           ` kiasoc5
2022-06-30  7:48             ` Lars-Dominik Braun
2022-08-02  8:44               ` muradm
2022-08-04  8:56                 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-08-04 10:04                   ` muradm

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