Creating a jackuser group

[Warren Togami]

Anthony Green wrote:
> fedora-music-list hosted a thread[1] recently on making it easier to run
> the jack-audio-connection-kit server.  It's a bit of a mess right now
> because users have to manually edit /etc/security/limits.conf before
> anything will run.
> 
> In order to clean things up, it was proposed that Fedora come
> pre-installed with a jackuser entry in /etc/group, as well as including
> the following in /etc/security/limits.conf...
> 
> @jackuser - rtprio 20
> @jackuser - memlock 131072
> 
> Then users simply need to be added to the jackuser group in order to run
> jackd and associated applications.  I believe this models what other
> distros are doing to support jack users.  We could even have a
> consolehelper enabled wrapper to ask users if they want to be added to
> this group if they aren't already when the run qjackctl.
> 
> Most of the discussion is captured in mail threads referenced by this
> bugzilla entry....
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=221785
> 
> So, if this sounds like a sane thing to do for Fedora 7, do I simply
> file bugzilla issues against the setup and pam packages (which
> own /etc/group and /etc/security/limits.conf respectively).
> 

Where do we draw the line between add-on software that should have a 
default user or group, and packages that have to create their own?

Doesn't Apache in Core create its own?

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com