Can't grant permission for video with users-admin

Bug #13776 reported by Étienne BERSAC
10
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Martin Pitt

Bug Description

Hello,

I have a great supported nVidia-GeForce-FX-5600-and-so-on-AGP-3D-card. The
device /dev/card0 belong to the video group. But when i create a new user with
the users-admin program from the gnome-system-tools, i can't grant the
permission to the card with the new and pretty interfaces.

So i sugget just to add an entry in the list of « grantable » permissions.

Thanks.

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Étienne BERSAC (bersace) wrote :

An other possiblity is to always grant this permission (if you want to have few
permission in the list).

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Étienne BERSAC (bersace) wrote :

for the instance, the devices are /dev/nvidia0 and /dev/nvidiactl, but it
doesn't change the problem since they both belong to the « video » group.
Thanks

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote :

This should be part of the Desktop profile as well

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Sivan Greenberg (sivan) wrote :

Reassigned to myself since I am anyways going to do some changes to the default
profiles and fix another bug or two related to them.

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Sivan asked me to take his bugs, since he does not have much time any more.

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Created an attachment (id=2010)
system-tools-backend debdiff

Patch for system-tools-backend (#7313, #7430)

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Created an attachment (id=2011)
gnome-system-tools debdiff

Fix for #7313, #7430

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

 system-tools-backends (1.2.0-0ubuntu6) hoary; urgency=low
 .
   * Added debian/patches/23_add_lpadmin_video_groups.patch:
     - Add "lpadmin" and "video" groups to users-conf.in. (Ubuntu #7313, #7430)

 gnome-system-tools (1.2.0-0ubuntu6) hoary; urgency=low
 .
   * debian/profiles.xml: Put Desktop and Administrator users into groups
     'video' and 'lpadmin'. (Ubuntu #7313, #7430)
   * Added debian/patches/21_disable_login_edit.dpatch:
     - Disable changing the username for now; this can be reevaluated for
       Breezy, but for Hoary we need something safe. (Ubuntu #6387)

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