Bug 771918 - RFE - when creating an administrative user add them to the dialout group
Summary: RFE - when creating an administrative user add them to the dialout group
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: firstboot
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Martin Gracik
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-01-05 11:39 UTC by Phil
Modified: 2013-07-04 13:00 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: firstboot-17.2-1.fc17
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2012-04-16 11:55:48 UTC
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Description Phil 2012-01-05 11:39:10 UTC
Description of problem:
The configuration of switches requires the 'root' user or 'dialout' group due to ownership of the /dev/ttyS* devices.  If a user was created as an 'administrator' they should be able to natively do administrative tasks such as configure serial devices - switches / phones that use /dev/ttyACM* etc.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
All

  
Actual results:
An administrator can not use any /dev/ttyS* devices by default without sudo.  this is inconvenient if the user is trying to run a gui application through the regular means such as gtkterm for example.


Expected results:
The administrative users be able to use any /dev/ttyS* devices as they are the administrator.


Note 1:
It looks, from my searching, that the only devices/files owned by the 'dialout' group are the serial devices and that the dialout group does not have any other function than to group own these devices - there's no 'dialout' user, only group.

Note 2:
The requested behaviour is the default in other distributions when creating the 'first' user account.

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2012-04-20 07:31:28 UTC
firstboot-17.2-1.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/firstboot-17.2-1.fc17

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2012-05-04 22:55:50 UTC
firstboot-17.2-1.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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