Re: [Jack-Devel] jack - audio group - package install

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 05:18:46PM -0800, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:

> We could as well say there is no need for filesystem permissions or user  
> accounts. We would just all login as root and share the system  
> responsibly. And yes, it would work if all users sharing such a system  
> were responsible and knowledgeable. I would not do that. It would only  
> be a matter of time till I nuked the system :-)

I'm not suggesting anything like that. When I refer to awareness
and responsability it is not those of a group of users using some
shared resources (although it matters in that case well, and can
make life a better experience).
You view things from the POV of sysadmin at an institution which
is of course perfectly OK. I take the same position when I'm in
that role here - be it at a much smaller scale. But if someowe
writes "wouldn't it be great not to have to add yourself to the
audio group" then that is from a completely different POV, that
of the average individual user who is the owner, master and only
admin of the system he's using. If such a user can't be bothered
to take up his own responsability, to acquire a minimum amount of
knowledge, and relies only the distro gods above to protect him,
then IMHO he deserves to be nuked. And those who for their own
profit or glory stimulate such a sheepish attitude deserve even
worse.

> If there is a way to give RT privileges to only the user sitting in  
> front of the console and using the system I will use that. In my  
> scenario it is the only user in that machine that needs that privilege.  
> There is nothing wrong with the process being automatic and requiring no  
> configuration.

It's not because something is convenient to you, me, or even to a 
majority of users that it should be the default.

Ciao,

-- 
FA

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