Systemd unit file: Can/Should ExecStart and ExecStop run a script?

[Kay Sievers]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 23:20, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:
>> On 19/10/11 21:48, Richard Shaw wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Lennart Poettering
>>> <mzerqung at 0pointer.de>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> You should manage acess control of device nodes from udev rules. That's
>>>> the only reasonably safe way to handle these things. And this should not
>>>> be mentioned at all in systemd unit files.
>
> Ok based on Tom's file I came up with the following. I know Lennart,
> you don't like setting ACL's from Systemd, but unless someone want's
> to help me write udev rules that will run before the start of
> mythbackend and after it's stopped, this is all I have:

Yeah, that looks very wrong.

Like mentioned earlier in this thread, just put the user into the
audio/video system group and forget about any permissions management.

Kay