Andrew, I am doing it by hand on pc and my workstation, and suggested to dot it to a many user I have provided support on the french community. Firewire sound card is common on laptop now if you want quality (usb sound cards are not very good with low latency).
Just a few question : I guess you agree that there is no security risk if there are only disks, camera or sound card plugged in firewire, because they are "passive" hardware. But is there really a way to have ethernet on firewire ? Is it common ? Toine Andrew Hunter a écrit : > 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-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
