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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Robert Watson wrote:

> So one thing we could start doing is have sysinstall's adduser stuff offer
> to place new users in the operator group, and set up the default
> permissions on removable devices such that the operator group has
> read/write access to them (or even just read-access).  This would be
> logically equivilent to placing users in an admin group at instlal on
> Windows or Mac OS X.  Operator access connotes the ability to shut down
> the system in FreeBSD, as well as the ability to dump file systems, etc.
> Another possibility would be to evolve our notion of console user based on
> fbtab some for workstation configurations.

I've always done most of this manually.  But I only normally grant
write access to group operator for floppies, since my other removable
devices are too large to risk clobbering them easily.  (I sometimes
temporarily make even non-removable disk partitions writable for
testing.)

Bruce


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