which groups

[grimx]

what all groups should a user belong to?

 

[graudeejs]

It absolutely depends on you and he way you organize FreeBSD
On desktop PC i'd create group media_users and assign all user to it, then modify devfs rules to allow these users to mount media

We have no way to suggest you anything here

 

[gcooper@]

A good idea though, is check what /dev nodes your users need access to and see who owns what devices. Also,

vfs.usermount=1

is a helpful sysctl; it allows you to mount if you're a non-root user.

 

[graudeejs]

A good idea though, is check what /dev nodes your users need access to and see who owns what devices. Also,

vfs.usermount=1

is a helpful sysctl; it allows you to mount if you're a non-root user.

but only after some additional modifying of devfs rules
This however have been discussed in this forum many times

 

[highq]

My very first experience with FreeBSD was installing 8.0 the other day.

When I am asked to create some user other than root, I fail because I have am not offered any suggestions, nor any list of groups present by default, so there is no basis for choosing a group.

 

[SirDice]

Choose nothing and a group with the same name as the user will be created. This will do fine.

The only exception is when you want that user have access to the [cmd=]su[/cmd] command. The user must be a member of the wheel group. You can easily add that group to an existing user: # pw groupmod wheel -m username.