Change from audio group to something else

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Hi Kaj,

Quoting Kaj Ailomaa (2014-10-26 21:07:17)
> I just reported a bug on the usage of audio group. bug #766914
> 
> As it seems to be considered a bad group for users to belong to, and 
> the fact that jackd packages expects the users to be apart of it, I 
> propose to remove audio as a user default and create a new group for 
> jack specifically.
> 
> ffado also requires the audio group, but AFAIK, the ffado drivers are 
> only used with jack.
> 
> Any thoughts on this?

Seems to me that goal of <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/TheAudioGroup>
is to move from POSIX groups to dynamically allocated access rights.

Would it perhaps be possible and better to similarly allocate the right 
to realtime priviledge, using some mechanisms too modern for me to have 
learned yet (systemd, dbus, etc.)?


 - Jonas

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