Gabriele Bulfon <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> we managed to have both VLC and xmms2 working on XStreamOS Desktop.
> But illumos, and Solaris, by default only allows super users to access the 
> device,
> so we had to chmod the device to allow audio to work.
> Also, I noticed that, even after changing devices permissions, after adding 
> new packages
> that force a reconfigure, they get back to the original permissions.
> What is the correct way to handle this?
> Should I change something for the distro?

The problem is that Linux added a security problem in spring 2004 and this was 
never fixed. Now 80% of what people like to do works without being root...

As a result, software that was developed onLinux often just ignores that multi 
media application need special privileges on typical OS.

You have to fix the software not the OS.

Jörg

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