Re: Why is greetd greeter user in so many groups?

[Lars-Dominik Braun]

Hi,

I merged greetd.

>          (group "wheel")
>          (supplementary-groups '("users" "tty" "input" "video"
> "audio"))
> […]
> I can understand the need for tty and input, but why does the
> greeter user need the wheel and audio?
I believe wheel is necessary to write logs to /var/log, because they
don’t go through the syslog. audio maybe for GTK-based greeter with
accessibility (i.e. TTS), but I’m not sure to be honest.

Lars