[Bug 814270] Re: first user created on the system needs to be in dip group

[Colin Watson]

This was fixed in user-setup 1.39ubuntu1:

    - Add the initial user to the dip group after all, not dialout; per
      Debian bug #568895, dip is for pppd and dialout is for raw tty access
      which users don't need.

(This is under "Dropped changes", but I've verified that that's merely
syntactic ambiguity in the changelog, and the actual code does indeed
now add the first user to the dip group.)

** Package changed: base-installer (Ubuntu) => user-setup (Ubuntu)

** Changed in: user-setup (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Fix Released

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Title:
  first user created on the system needs to be in dip group

Status in “user-setup” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  I hope base-installer is the correct package for this report.  If not,
  please reassign.

  The first user created during installation of the base system is in
  the dialout group among others.  /usr/bin/pppd has group ownership of
  dip not dialout and this is by design.  The first user needs to be
  added to dip group as well for proper functioning of pppd connections.
  This is a fairly long-standing problem.

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