ownership of devices

[Alan Cox]

On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 08:22:49PM +0200, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote:
> these devices, "audio", "sound", "media", whatever.  Then normal users
> get added to this group, and rpms can as part of the install add their
> newly-created user to this group, and everyone is happy.

If normal users are in the audio group they can access the audio remotely,
that leads to interesting abuse (recorders, audio pranks etc)

> explain the situation to users that want to install and run flumotion
> pretty much every time someone tries it).  At this point I am very
> tempted to do evil things from the flumotion rpm just so this problem
> gets dealt with instead of being shuffled under the carpet :)

So you'd want flumotion to run under a uid/gid with access to audio (ie
have an audio group). That in itself seems sane providing users aren't
then put into it by default