Package: jackd2 Severity: normal Version: 1.9.8~dfsg.1-1
The "audio" group has a special meaning in standard desktop usage - as defined in udev rules, it gives access to sound devices to users in that group, thereby overriding/complementing Consolekit's automatic permission assignment (which allows the current logged in user to have sound card access).
As a result, it is normally not recommended to let a user be a part of the audio group.
However, jackd2 uses the same group name for a different purpose: it enables (if user activates it on installation) the users in the audio group to run processes with rt priority and unlimited memory locking.
This is problematic; as a reasonably common use case would be to actually make use of RT priority, but at the same time use ConsoleKit's built-in device assignment.
My suggestion is to rename "audio" to something else in jackd2. -- David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd. http://launchpad.net/~diwic _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
