Re: [Fwd: Re: jackd/ dpkg-statoverride/ "audio" group question(s)]
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 09:51:00AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> > > Is there a policy for audio apps in this regard?
> >
> > No, but there should be, probably.
>
> Since there are a lot of audio applications starting to
> hit sid, eg. jackd, ardour, etc, where would be the place to
> discuss "policy" in this regard - eg., having an audio group,
> and suid/sgid on these applications?
> (seeing as dpkg-statoverride is not the way to do it it seems)
We _do_ have an audio-group and users who need to have access to
/dev/{mixer,snd,dsp,..} should be put in there, instead of making
the app SGID.
cu andreas
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