ubuntu-xxx dependencies & group assignment for sound & co

[bslash]

Matt Zimmerman wrote:
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> 
>>- We authenticate our users via an LDAP & Kerberos Server. Every student
>>is in the LDAP directory. We also have groups in the LDAP but they are
>>mostly used for permissions on the home directory (which is an NFS share).
>>Now the questions is how can we make sure that students can mount cdroms
>>and play sound without being in the required groups? It wouldn't be very
>>comfortable to us to add each student to each of those groups. Again, I am
>>looking for a solution that doesn't break Ubuntu or change the next time I
>>do an update of it.
> 
> 
> Why is it a problem to add these users to the necessary groups?  That is the
> simplest and most robust solution.
> 

you can, but then you have to tweak the client machines and/or your LDAP 
so that both groups "audio" (for instance), the one in /etc/groups and 
the one in LDAP, have the same GID number. If you don't, all kinds of 
weirdness happen...

bslash