ITP: realtime -- Realtime Linux Security Module (fwd)

[guenter geiger <geiger@xdv.org>]

Hi,

I have just sent an ITP for Jack's realtime module. The new 2.6.4
debian kernel series come with all the features that we need. Preliminary
versions are available at:

deb http://mtg80.upf.es/devel/packages  /

You basically just have to install the new kernel
e.g.
apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.6-1-686

and then the realtime module

apt-get install realtime-module-2.4.6-1-686

(sorry, no other flavors yet)

When the module has been installed succesully you should be able
to run jack without jackstart and suid root, just as
jack -R -d alsa

At the same time, most of the other applications that require realtime
scheduling and memory locking should work. (For users in the audio group).

You can change the settings of the module in /etc/default/realtime.conf,
the module gets automatically loaded by a init.d script.

Feeback is highly appreciated.

I am going to upload the source packages the next days, and later on
the compiled binary modules.

Greetings,

Guenter


---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 16:19:17 +0100
From: "Guenter Geiger (Debian/GNU)" <geiger@debian.org>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: ITP: realtime -- Realtime Linux Security Module

Package: wnpp
Version: unavailable; reported 2004-03-25
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : realtime
  Version         : 0.0.4
  Upstream Author : Jack O'Quin
* URL             : http://www.joq.us/realtime/
* License         : GPL
  Description     : Realtime Linux Security Module

This Linux Security Module (LSM) enables realtime capabilities.
It can be used to grant realtime permissions to a specific users
group or applications. Therefore applications that require realtime
scheduling don't have to be "suid" root anymore, which improves
system security. Furthermore realtime scheduling can be set on a
system wide level and turned off for specific runlevels. The module
gets loaded via a init.d script. The default behaviour is to grant
realtime permissions to users in the audio group, and applications
that are "setgid" audio. This can be changed in a configuration file
/etc/default/realtime.conf. The module works with with 2.6 kernel only.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux xdv 2.4.22-1-686 #1 Fri Sep 5 23:04:29 EST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C