I know what you meen, one of my 13yr can kill the most stable system by just sitting at the keyboard (no kidding). But if I remeber correctly I could use ardour as the user that starts jack from about a year ago. I did not try it this time since I did not mess with capabilities On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Mark Knecht wrote: > root to even start Ardour and that raises other risks that he might not want > to take. (rm / ?) I know you don't do things like that, but my 11 year old > kid does, so I'd never let him touch Ardour running as root on one of my > systems. > > Mark > >