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

lee at fallingforward.net lee at fallingforward.net
Sat Mar 6 21:27:06 EST 2004


I'm a little behind with my email. Just read this. I find editing kernel
hearder quite a hardcore solution to not running as root. Are there any OS
X Core Audio developers on this list who know how Apple does it?
Appearently all apps that need to run in realtime regardless of the user.

-lee

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Florian Schmidt wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 18:48:29 +0100
> Hasse Hagen Johansen <hhj at musikcheck.dk> wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > 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).
> >
> > I am running Gentoo with reiserfs, so I hope
> > it doesn't depend on using ext2/3 extended attributes...any
> > recommendations?
>
>
> http://jackit.sourceforge.net/docs/faq.php
>
> Look at the performance question..
>
> Flo
>
>
> --
> signature :)
>
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