Bug 458331

Summary: Add supplementary audio group to the gdm user
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Tomas Mraz <tmraz>
Component: gdmAssignee: Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: desktop-bugs <desktop-bugs>
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Version: 5.2CC: llim
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Bug Depends On: 253243    
Bug Blocks: 244688    

Description Tomas Mraz 2008-08-07 16:33:26 UTC
The gdm user needs to be member of the new audio group created by setup in bug 253243. It is necessary for gdm to access the audio devices for accessible login.

Comment 1 Ray Strode [halfline] 2008-08-07 21:40:53 UTC
devack for 5.4

Comment 2 Ray Strode [halfline] 2009-05-12 14:51:33 UTC
I've changed the usermod line in %pre to 

/usr/sbin/usermod -d /var/gdm -s /sbin/nologin -a -G audio gdm >/dev/null 2>&1

and added a 

Prereq: setup >= 2.5.58-4.el5

Building now in gdm-2.16.0-50.el5. Marking MODIFIED for QA.

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2009-09-02 11:28:39 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1364.html