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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2014-06-22 22:16:14 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2014-06-22 22:16:14 +0200
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system: Augment the default set of groups.
* gnu/system/shadow.scm (%base-groups): New variable. * gnu/system.scm (<operating-system>)[groups]: Use it as the default.
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1 files changed, 22 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/system/shadow.scm b/gnu/system/shadow.scm
index 471390da61..fc19068ab6 100644
--- a/gnu/system/shadow.scm
+++ b/gnu/system/shadow.scm
@@ -42,7 +42,8 @@
user-group-id
default-skeletons
- skeleton-directory))
+ skeleton-directory
+ %base-groups))
;;; Commentary:
;;;
@@ -71,6 +72,26 @@
(password user-group-password (default #f))
(id user-group-id (default #f)))
+(define %base-groups
+ ;; Default set of groups.
+ (list (user-group (name "root") (id 0))
+ (user-group (name "wheel")) ; root-like users
+ (user-group (name "users")) ; normal users
+ (user-group (name "nogroup")) ; for daemons etc.
+
+ ;; The following groups are conventionally used by things like udev to
+ ;; control access to hardware devices.
+ (user-group (name "tty"))
+ (user-group (name "dialout"))
+ (user-group (name "kmem"))
+ (user-group (name "video"))
+ (user-group (name "audio"))
+ (user-group (name "lp"))
+ (user-group (name "disk"))
+ (user-group (name "floppy"))
+ (user-group (name "cdrom"))
+ (user-group (name "tape"))))
+
(define (default-skeletons)
"Return the default skeleton files for /etc/skel. These files are copied by
'useradd' in the home directory of newly created user accounts."