Desktop users and group membership

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Montag, den 07.07.2014, 17:23 +0200 schrieb Niki Kovacs:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm currently fiddling with central authentication and roaming profiles. 
> I have Ubuntu 14.04 LTS running on the server, and a mix of Ubuntu 12.04 
> MATE and Elementary OS 0.2 (based on Ubuntu 12.04) on the client side. 
> So far, NIS/NFS is working OK, users can authenticate centrally on the 
> server and access their home directories.
> 
> Now I wonder what groups I can possibly affect the average desktop user 
> to. On a Slackware system, for example, all my users were members of the 
> following groups:
> 
> audio, cdrom, floppy, plugdev, video, power, netdev, lp, scanner
> 
> What's a reasonable choice for Ubuntu-based systems?

technically you shouldn't need any of them anymore, they are there for
legacy reasons, device access on ubuntu is granted via logind, policykit
and udev ACL nowadays ... if you use a floppy i guess you might like the
floppy group and i think "lp" is hardcoded in some userspace tools still
"audio" is helpful if you want the user to have direct access to audio
devices which in time of pulseaudio isnt actually necessary anymore.

ciao
	oli
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