[Bug 75602]

[Simon McVittie]

(In reply to comment #17)
> If you can get this working well and securely, I'm happy to
> review/merge.

On the other hand, I still think a more appropriate solution to the
problem you outlined on the mailing list and in your git repository
(dynamically-allocated users/groups without editing /etc) would be to
install a nss module that understands those users/groups; or if your
libc doesn't have pluggable nss, modify your libc to know about them
directly, like Android's Bionic libc.

If this feature request can't be satisfied in a way that is clearly
secure, I'm afraid I would prefer not to satisfy it at all.

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Title:
  DBUS Should Support "Session Groups"
  (pam_group.so,/etc/security/groups.conf)

Status in D-Bus:
  In Progress
Status in “dbus” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: dbus

  In my lab, there are lots of users in an LDAP database. These users
  are assigned to the groups audio,video,plugdev,etc. by pam_group
  (using the /etc/security/groups.conf file). The problem is, DBUS
  doesn't recognize users as being in groups unless they're in
  /etc/group, which isn't practical for our setup. So, there are
  permission problems with USB sticks, kpowersave, etc. (well, there
  *will* be, once I upgrade from Dapper to a more version of Kubuntu).

  On my laptop, I can use (the kludge) "adduser $uname plugdev"... this
  won't work in the lab.

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