From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 4 18:39:35 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6DAF1065695 for ; Mon, 4 May 2009 18:39:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f105.google.com (mail-qy0-f105.google.com [209.85.221.105]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E9CE8FC15 for ; Mon, 4 May 2009 18:39:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: by qyk3 with SMTP id 3so7832023qyk.3 for ; Mon, 04 May 2009 11:39:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=WCLWDi7l7+wCAfRhgv2gnpXdDM9bJB/5RQPccEJ8OPk=; b=far22YLcHZvPtMwzTqJVoVLFy5QoyvTeglbrgVHrpqUPxwwNfvPYLqdrPkfM4PVJL1 0L+DpccSBPlkGhpDUFn/XjJWxIx0cH7d2dAqtnujpBjwtok9gqrhvrUHa1BN/W5ptNAI NTfHu9Cx6tEoGJCVhHqh+DuwnhjkBOxRyTMr0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=upMwWH9BjYYKogWqxSqrOPiKg4NaBhz7ViZFDwiPVFZGrbw5aXz7TIOBEEjX1jK5Xf BpHbCoOfg3oJLO8nNJWqnQPCre/9zkJxhL4RYPA5xOhyB2xgIq0uVoBEEcSVDeOBcO3m +2i5sAI0aLxHkQg25aJrad6OnxTyS+WMf3x1U= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.35.13 with SMTP id n13mr672738ibd.24.1241462374574; Mon, 04 May 2009 11:39:34 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090504141834.GA5348@gecko.davescrunch.net> References: <20090504141834.GA5348@gecko.davescrunch.net> Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 14:39:34 -0400 Message-ID: From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, crankbuster@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: Questions about groups. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 18:39:36 -0000 2009/5/4 Old Crankbuster : > > 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. -- --