I am a little stuck on something.
I have a laptop that I use solely for music, as it broke down, and can no longer be used as a primary laptop. VLC is the default player and works fine, but I am increasingly getting annoyed by how I can accidentally create empty folders, or move files from within VLC, and scarily, even delete files (this hasn't happened yet, except for when I have to delete the empty folders I accidentally create, skipping the recycle bin) I would like to make my audio folder locked down on VLC only, making it read-only to VLC, but not the rest of my system. I tried finding what user group VLC is part of, I am told it is PLUGDEV so I went and created a small folder to test this, putting in 1 audio file, then setting the permissions for the entire folder to be read-only and access-only for only PLUGDEV. However, VLC can still create, delete, and move files within this folder.
Does anyone know how my goal can be achieved?
#vlc #help #support #linux #usergroups #plugdev #readonly #ubuntu #debian

Recently, when I dealt with some package issues around probe-rs, I found that some developers and packagers may have some misunderstandings about #systemd #udev giving some users access permission. systemd udev rules have two kinds of permission mechanisms: one is like chown, which can set the device file's owner to some user or group (normally #plugdev system group); another is #uaccess, systemd will give the active user session permission via ACL.