From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: Audio/sound (ALSA) in guix environment --container Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 18:21:32 +0100 Message-ID: <87bm1x4kmb.fsf@elephly.net> References: <874l7wgg75.fsf@bababa.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> <878sx1h817.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:53154) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h8qU8-0004W9-2b for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2019 14:07:40 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h8qU7-0003Sx-6V for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2019 14:07:40 -0400 Received: from sender-of-o51.zoho.com ([135.84.80.216]:21097) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h8qU5-0003Rp-BB for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Mar 2019 14:07:39 -0400 In-reply-to: <878sx1h817.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: Guix-devel Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: > I=E2=80=99m thinking we should change =E2=80=98guix environment -C=E2=80= =99 to map to a UID > other than zero, at least by default. When developing code, some tools > may behave differently when running under UID 0 and that=E2=80=99s rarely= what > we need I think. Thoughts? I agree. Defaulting to UID 0 is not good. (=E2=80=9Cconda=E2=80=9D is an = example of one application that has very different behaviour when it thinks it is running as root.) -- Ricardo