Hey everyone! If you have not heard about it already, the Ubuntu Studio team is looking at creating an app that would easily allow users to change common settings that they may be currently editing by hand.[1]
One of the features that we are considering is changing the permissions on raw1394 /etc/udev/rules.d/40-permissions.rules from disk to audio or video. This is a necessary change currently to enable firewire based devices to work as a regular user, such as firewire sound cards and video cameras. The other alternative solution is to add the user to group "disk", though this may also cause problems. The issue with this is that it creates a rather large security risk for the system, in that any device on the firewire bus can run with root privileges. This risk is less of an issue for stand-alone machines that do not use Ethernet over firewire, but is still something to consider. I would like to stress that it _will not_ be changed by default. All that we are considering is providing a more accessible way to modify those settings. In the future, when Ubuntu and by extension Ubuntu Studio move to the new firewire stack in the kernel, this issue will be an non-issue. The new kernel stack provides much finer granularity and control over permissions on specific devices. The question then I am posing to you guys is this: How many of you already change this setting by hand? Thanks, Andrew [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-studio-devel/2007-November/000095.html -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
