[linux-audio-user] running jack as non-root?

[Arnold Krille]

On Friday 27 February 2004 18:48, Hasse Hagen Johansen wrote:
> Now googled around without results. The question is
> what is the recommended way to run jack and jack aware applications as
> a non root user. I saw something about capabilites at ccrma, but I
> cannot se how it is done (I know it is in the 2.4 kernels).

Apart from other "official" solutions I did set the suid flag on all the 
binaries I need and changed the group to audio (and let others not execute 
the bins)...

That way I can have excellent latency times while still being my normal user.

Arnold

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