Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 14:39:34 -0400 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, crankbuster@gmail.com Subject: Re: Questions about groups. Message-ID: <d7195cff0905041139m1ee4eb86yea534b7be3d82d24@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090504141834.GA5348@gecko.davescrunch.net> References: <20090504141834.GA5348@gecko.davescrunch.net>
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2009/5/4 Old Crankbuster <crankbuster@gmail.com>: > > Coming from Gnu/Linux, I see differences in group generation on regular > user generation, and there's a group I'm not familiar with - 'operator'. > > What does that one do? Members of "operator" can run /sbin/shutdown among other things. find / -group operator can answer better than I ever could. > > I'm familiar with 'staff' and I've added my normal user to that, and of > course 'wheel'. > > I intend to use the system on a laptop in this case, and need to enable > regular user access to audio, cdrom/dvd read and write, usb access, and > network reconfiguration/dialout, games and so forth. > > I am not seeing such things as plugdev,audio,cdrom in etc/group after > initial install. > > Do I need to manually add such groups and then point relevant packages > to them? > Various methods apply (for instance /dev/dspN.n is world writable), man 5 devfs.conf is a good start for some of that. Best of luck. -- --
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