[arch] network group

Jan de Groot jan at jgc.homeip.net
Wed Sep 27 16:46:23 EDT 2006


On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 20:55 +0200, Jose M. Prieto wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have noticed that the last filesystem upgrade added a new users group: 
> network. What is this group for?

It will get used just like the groups for audio, video, etc. The group
is used to assign users the right to configure network. At this moment,
two services can use this group:
- avahi to set its mdns hostname
- networkmanager to configure the network

These things are not in archlinux yet, but will be there shortly when we
move in the updated packages for dbus 0.9x. Currently I'm working on a
dbus-internal issue, so it could take a few days before you see things
appearing in testing.




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