-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Hunter schrieb:
> 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. Video cams also? Quite strange - I can download easily from a mini-dv-cam whithout any hassle. First time I mentioned the permission-issue was when I used a firewire-soundcard first. > The other alternative solution is to add the user to group "disk", > though this may also cause problems. I did this and do not have any problems right now - of course I do notdo that on a server, it is my Laptop on wich I use the FW-card for mobile recording. Seriously: I do not see a realworld useage-scenario, whre adding the user to group disk could be a problem.... > 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, I never saw a machine using firewire to connect to a network - USB yes for stuff like Zaurus but FW? > 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. Very good idea: PLUS: such a tool should allow to set stuff like max_user_freq and limits.conf also... > 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? I did, be member of group disk now and it works quite OK for me... bg hzn -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHTvRk1Aecwva1SWMRAgtQAJ98zfQiBVcNXocWDDFAHcKJp/41PgCffjAf TnLNZrKMAKqiTNNGWT7mjFo= =YwvP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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
