Stop (ab)using system groups for device permissions

Registered by Martin Pitt

NSS Groups should solely be for grouping people. They should not be used extensively to assign privileges to local device permissions, since this leads to proliferation of more and more groups, difficulties with maintaining those groups, and even more difficulties with maintaining them centrally in e. g. NIS or LDAP.

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Status:
Complete
Approver:
Scott James Remnant (Canonical)
Priority:
Medium
Drafter:
Martin Pitt
Direction:
Approved
Assignee:
Martin Pitt
Definition:
Approved
Series goal:
Accepted for intrepid
Implementation:
Implemented
Milestone target:
None
Started by
Martin Pitt
Completed by
Martin Pitt

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