Talk:Groups

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How do you:

Make a new group? I Tried to add a new user to a group and it was not updated with the group or id command. Must you reboot or do something else?

Just log out and in again.

--byte 20:25, 26 September 2007 (EDT)

PolicyKit?

Isn't this all obsolete now that there is PolicyKit? - KitchM 14:00, 24 October 2009 (EDT)

Not at all. People running minimal/server installs may not have Xorg installed, and would have little/no need for PolicyKit. -- pointone 16:04, 24 October 2009 (EDT)

Is PolicyKit only for Xorg? - KitchM 12:21, 25 October 2009 (EDT)

PolicyKit works without, but I think that the point is groups are the default Linux way of handling things. It's not obsolete.

--Gog 19:29, 25 October 2009 (EDT)

We see that there is still a lot of confusion about, at least the details of, PolicyKit. I read recently that PolicyKit clearly takes over for things such as individial and group permissions, and that such was its primary goal, because of a need to give better and more granular control over permissions in Linux. Therefore, it does seem redundant to hang onto the old way of doing things since this idea seems to indicate an actual new default for Linux. (One can read more about it by reading everything under "Introduction" here under PolicyKit documentation.

If we believe that groups still exist to be directly manipulated, then what does PolicyKit do? If we believe that it replaces group and individual setting methods, then why discuss groups and individual rights. Maybe these should indeed be deprecated.

The question appears to be whether or not it actually takes the place of these. Both working together appears to be totally contrary to the whole issue. - KitchM 13:21, 26 October 2009 (EDT)

adm group

is it obsolete? Eigrad 14:44, 2 February 2010 (EST)

Wheel

Where did the name "wheel" come from and why? - KitchM 11:25, 9 March 2010 (EST)