After running an update, changes on the /etc/groupfile was flagged.
[16:24:32] Info: Starting test name 'group_changes'
[16:24:32] Checking for group file changes [ Warning ]
[16:24:32] Warning: Changes found in the group file for group 'root':
[16:24:32] User 'brltty' has been added to the group
[16:24:32] Warning: Changes found in the group file for group 'tty':
[16:24:32] User 'brltty' has been added to the group
[16:24:32] Warning: Changes found in the group file for group 'audio':
[16:24:33] User 'brltty' has been added to the group
[16:24:33] Warning: Changes found in the group file for group 'dialout':
[16:24:33] User 'brltty' has been added to the group
[16:24:33] Warning: Changes found in the group file for group 'input':
[16:24:33] User 'brltty' has been added to the group
[16:24:33] Warning: Changes found in the group file for group 'brlapi':
[16:24:33] User 'brltty' has been added to the group
[16:24:33] Warning: Changes found in the group file for group 'pulse-access':
[16:24:33] User 'brltty' has been added to the group
[16:24:34] Warning: Group 'brltty' has been added to the group file.
What immediately concerned me was that it was added to the root group. I did a cat /etc/group | grep -i brltty to confirm this:
Checked man brltty and it says it’s a daemon for Braille. Nothing rather useful to investigate why that thing was added to the root group.
Can someone help confirm if this is normal? If it is, maybe a little explanation would be useful as well for future reference.
Disclaimer: I did a search for brltty rootusing Duck Duck Go, the openSUSE Wiki pages and also this forum (to see if someone already asked about this) and did not find anything useful to aid my own investigation, so I ended up posting here to ask. Just throwing it out there that I spent some time doing some research before asking since (in my experience) there are people here who post their reply without minding their manners just to point out that you missed what they would call “basic” when it was just a case of being in a hurry.
Thanks in advance for those who would bother to answer while minding their manners.
@hcvv The groups are only changed if you have/had brltty installed
Really ? Blind administrators are not allowed to use linux?
BRLTTY is a background process (daemon) which provides access to the Linux/Unix console (when in text mode) for a blind person using a refreshable braille display. It drives the braille display and provides complete screen review functionality.
and:
system-user-brltty - System user and group named brltty
System user for the Braille display driver for Linux/Unix
What’s up with taking my statement out of context? I never said anything about blind people not having the right to use Linux.
Just to be clear, what I am concerned about is user accounts suddenly getting added to the rootgroup, because I am concerned of unnecessary permissions being granted to certain accounts by way of inheritance which may translate to security risks. There is no discrimination going on here, so can you please stop making an issue out of thin air @hui ?