Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:03:25 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> To: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> Cc: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/114168: [PATCH] audio/esound lacks startup script for esd Message-ID: <46CDE80D.9050000@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200708231950.l7NJo6Gl013970@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200708231950.l7NJo6Gl013970@freefall.freebsd.org>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Roland Smith wrote: > The following reply was made to PR ports/114168; it has been noted by GNATS. > > From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> > To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> > Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: ports/114168: [PATCH] audio/esound lacks startup script for esd > Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:45:51 +0200 > > --r5Pyd7+fXNt84Ff3 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 02:27:22PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > Esd is designed to be run as the current user, and not as root. I don't > > think starting it out of rc.d is a good idea.=20 > > How does esd gain access to the sound devices when running as a normal > user? I guess you'd have to give everybody read and write access to the > devices in question. I'm not sure how that is safer than running esd as roo= > t. The sound devices are 0666 by default. > > > What other distributions do this? > > I don't know. I just found it inconvenient that it doesn't start > automatically, like a daemon should (if configured in rc.conf) I've never had a problem because GNOME starts it as my user. I'm very leery about running a daemon as root that is clearly designed to be run as a normal user. Joe - -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGzegNb2iPiv4Uz4cRAjKiAJkBVzfHvv7k9b+pqKwmJdGTBq9J6ACdHu3P Xh1TmnRpl/Y9zpdHSU9lp00= =D+FT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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