[linux-audio-user] pam modules / non root users can't get realtime privileges.

[Dragan Noveski]

Marcos Guglielmetti wrote:
> Hi I see this:
>
>
> /lib/security/pam_unix.so
> /lib/security/pam_unix_acct.so
> /lib/security/pam_unix_auth.so
> /lib/security/pam_unix_passwd.so
> /lib/security/pam_unix_session.so
>
> lsmod | grep pam
> (nothing) I dont know how does it works...
>
> I have:
>
> apt-cache policy libpam-modules
> libpam-modules:
>   Instalados: 0.79-4
>   Candidato: 0.79-4
>   Tabla de versión:
>  *** 0.79-4 0
>         990 ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org testing/main Packages
>
>
>
> kernel:
>
> Linux 2.6.20-rc5-rt2 #2 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jan 15 22:24:12 EET 2007 i686 
> GNU/Linux
>
>
> But, non root users can't get realtime privileges.
>
>
> Lee told me to use something like this into /etc/security/limits.conf
>
> @audio               hard    rtprio  99
> @audio               hard    nice    -20
> @audio               soft    nice    -20
> @audio               hard    memlock 500000
>
> My user is into the audio group, of course
>
> But the problem is still here: no realtime JACK audio for non root users... I 
> cant install an Ubuntu libpam-modules into this system, because it will break 
> the package dependency system.
>
> What else could I do?
>
>   
hi, i am not sure if it will help you, but have a look here(it s an old 
post from the lau):

Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote:
> Right now libpam-modules version available for Debian etch is
> 0.79-3.1. Does anybody know if this version is rlimits-aware or if it
> needs to be patched?
>
>   
libpam-modules_0.79-3.2_i386.deb is not rlimit aware
I found a debian package that is rlimit aware at :
http://seite9.de/~burkhard/pam_debian_rlimits/

David.
> Cordially, Ismael
>   

cheers,
doc