[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 31 Jan 2003, Austin Acton wrote: > > What I think is the problem is that they want jackd to be able to > reschedule any program at some moment in time. For this, they would > continuously need the ability to mess with the scheduler. > > I would consider this a very non-secure thing, not much better than having > it run all the time as root. Though I wonder why that is not possible. >
So what's wrong with having jackd (configurable via /etc/sysconfig/jackd or something) start via an init script, and (configurable, disabled by default) be able to run as root?? Do the jack clients need to be running as root or not? > Anyway, it seems that this is only possible by sacrificing security: do we > want that in the low_lat kernel or not? > Probably not. > >>Obviously the alternatives are even worse (unreliable low latency >>operation, or running everything as root) > But does *everything*, or only jackd, need to run as root? > Funny to see how these audio people thing low latencies are worse that a > security problem. Depends what your business is I guess ... Buchan -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
