>>>>> "Hasse" == Hasse Hagen Johansen <hhj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: Thanks for the tip about givertcap. I actually had seen that..now I think I will try it ;-) Would it be possible to use the ACL/EA infrastructure in combination with patches for ACL/EA for reiserfs (like Suse is doing). Would that allow me to set capabilities as root on an executable for a specific user...then I could set the realtime cap? /Hasse Hasse> Hi Now googled around without results. The question is Hasse> what is the recommended way to run jack and jack aware Hasse> applications as a non root user. I saw something about Hasse> capabilites at ccrma, but I cannot se how it is done (I Hasse> know it is in the 2.4 kernels). Hasse> I am running Gentoo with reiserfs, so I hope it doesn't Hasse> depend on using ext2/3 extended attributes...any Hasse> recommendations? Hasse> Best Regards Hasse> Hasse