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and subject line Re: [Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#766914: base: audio
group should not be default for users
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regarding base: audio group should not be default for users
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Package: base
Severity: important
Reference from Ubuntu wiki on the arguments against using audio group
as default for users https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/TheAudioGroup.
audio group is currently expected by the jackd packages to gain
realtime privilege for users. jackd1 and jackd2 packages install
the file /etc/security/limits.d/audio.conf for this purpose.
It is also required to gain acess for a set of firewire devices
using the ffado driver. Privileges granted with the file
/lib/udev/rules.d/60-ffado.rules installed by the package libffado2.
I propose to remove audio group from the list of user default groups
and add a new one for jack, specifically.
Either named "jack", or as is praxis on Fedora systems, "jackuser".
In any case, it would be good to standardize the group for jack. The
use of such a group for jack is the much preferred option. It is what
jack devs recommend, and it is the way most people use to get realtime
privilege.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing-updates
APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-lowlatency (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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Sorry, this is not Ubuntu, so their policy does not apply.
Feel free toraise this topic on a mailing list instead.
Kaj Ailomaa wrote:
> Package: base
> Severity: important
>
> Reference from Ubuntu wiki on the arguments against using audio group
> as default for users https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/TheAudioGroup.
>
> audio group is currently expected by the jackd packages to gain
> realtime privilege for users. jackd1 and jackd2 packages install
> the file /etc/security/limits.d/audio.conf for this purpose.
> It is also required to gain acess for a set of firewire devices
> using the ffado driver. Privileges granted with the file
> /lib/udev/rules.d/60-ffado.rules installed by the package libffado2.
>
> I propose to remove audio group from the list of user default groups
> and add a new one for jack, specifically.
> Either named "jack", or as is praxis on Fedora systems, "jackuser".
>
> In any case, it would be good to standardize the group for jack. The
> use of such a group for jack is the much preferred option. It is what
> jack devs recommend, and it is the way most people use to get realtime
> privilege.
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: jessie/sid
> APT prefers testing-updates
> APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-lowlatency (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
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