Forbid user control over ALSA [disable PolicyKit?]

[Brian McKee]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Christian Svensson<blue at cmd.nu> wrote:
> It's the stubbornness in me that wants this done. I don't want to spend any
> money / more equipment on it since I know I don't need it.

That I can certainly get behind :-)

> The mpd output is connected to a large speaker system that fills a special
> room with adrenalin pumping music - mixing is out of the question.


So mpd is run under a separate account right?  What happens if you
change the permissions of /dev/dsp to be owned by the mpd user only?
i.e. only allow mpd to use sound, rather than locking other users out?

Brian

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