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