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res44

02-15-2013 12:26 PM

Groups with Runlevel4 in Slackware_14.0

When I use startx after a console login to Slackware_14.0,
I find that by default a user belongs to the following groups:

users lp floppy audio video cdrom scanner

When I alter /etc/inittab to start runlevel4,
the only groups a user has are:

users

The other groups can be added with "usermod" but why are the groups missing when booting with runlevel4, and which groups should be added?

This is a change from the way Slackware_13.0 worked.

Is this a bug in Slackware_14.0?

wildwizard

02-15-2013 09:18 PM

Bug? No.

See /etc/login.defs

Code:

# Note that users are added to these default groups only when

# logging into a shell with /bin/login, not when using a login

# manager such as kdm.  In that case, users who should have

# hardware access must be added to the appropriate groups

# when the user is added with adduser or useradd, or by editing

# /etc/group directly, preferably using "vigr"

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