audio group membership

[Felipe Sateler]

On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 8:03 AM, Scott Leggett <scott at sl.id.au> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> While I was investigating #864829, I noticed that my user is a member of
> the audio group. I checked, and this is also the case on a default
> desktop installation:
>
>   $ grep audio /etc/group
>   audio:x:29:scott,pulse
>
> According to the upstream pulseaudio wiki "Perfect Setup" page [0],
> Debian falls into distro group 2, which means that no non-system users
> should be members of the audio group.
>

Indeed, debian is in group 2.


>
> Is there a bug here? Should the default desktop user be in the audio
> group?
>

Yes, this is a bug in debian-installer:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=766914

Hopefully this can be fixed for buster.

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler
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