Creating a jackuser group

[Anthony Green]

On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 06:56 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> So lets think about the user experience here.  If somebody installs an
> app that uses Jack or requires realtime audio capabilities, what's the
> failure mode if they're not in the 'rtaudio' group?  How would they know
> what to do to be able to do realtime audio?  How do they get told that
> they need to got to system-config-users, enter the root password, and
> add themselves?

The plan that was discussed on fedora-music-list was to wrap qjackctl in
a script that checked to see if the user was part of the jackuser group
and, if not, popped up a dialog box asking if they wanted to join
(requiring root password via consolehelper script).

See the thread here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/fedora-music-list@redhat.com/msg00121.html

AG