From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 23 20:03:03 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: gnome@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C04A216A417 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:03:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@FreeBSD.org) Received: from av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (hen.cisco.com [64.102.19.198]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BC3F13C428 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:03:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@FreeBSD.org) X-TACSUNS: Virus Scanned Received: from rooster.cisco.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (8.11.7p3+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id l7NK32Y25671; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:03:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [64.102.221.145] (dhcp-64-102-221-145.cisco.com [64.102.221.145]) by rooster.cisco.com (8.11.7p3+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id l7NK39613474; Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:03:09 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <46CDE80D.9050000@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:03:25 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke Organization: FreeBSD, Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Macintosh/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roland Smith References: <200708231950.l7NJo6Gl013970@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200708231950.l7NJo6Gl013970@freefall.freebsd.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/114168: [PATCH] audio/esound lacks startup script for esd X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:03:03 -0000 -----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 > To: Joe Marcus Clarke > 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-----