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Chapter 10

Customizing your installation of

Debian GNU/Linux

10.1 How can I ensure that all programs use the same paper size?

Install the

libpaper1

package, and it will ask you for a system wide default paper size. This

setting will be kept in the file

/etc/papersize

.

Users can override the paper size setting using the

PAPERSIZE

environment variable. For

details, see the manual page

papersize(5)

.

10.2 How can I provide access to hardware peripherals, without com 

promising security?

Many device files in the

/dev

directory belong to some predefined groups. For example,

/dev/fd0

belongs to the

floppy

group, and

/dev/dsp

belongs to the

audio

group.

If you want a certain user to have access to one of these devices, just add the user to the group

the device belongs to, i.e. do:

adduser user group

This way you won't have to change the file permissions on the device.

10.3 How do I load a console font on startup the Debian way?

The

kbd

and

console tools

packages support this, edit

/etc/kbd/config

or

/etc/console tools/config

files.