> Recently I've been having problems with the ownership/permissions of the > /dev/<sound devices>. I'm not sure how and when it started happening. > > The devices take on the ownership of who logs on; eg if I log on, the > devices are setup as, for example, > > crw-------- 1 dave audio 14, 3 ... /dev/dsp0 > > For me thats ok. > > If I subsequently logoff, and my son logs on, they change ownership to > his logon. > > Where this is particularly a pain is when I logon as 'root' to start X & > Gnome via gdm and logon that way, then the devices are set to > > crw-------- 1 root audio 14, 3 ... /dev/dsp0 > > ..and no sound comes out for anyone, 'cos no-ones got permission for > the devices. > > However I manually change the permission setup (eg setting rw for the > 'audio' group, to which every logon is assigned), they always get reset > to owner-only rw permission next boot-up. > > This is Alsa 0.9rc6 on Mandrake 9.
I don't know if Mandrake uses the same directory structure for this as RedHat, In Redhat /etc/security/console.perms defines how the permissions get allocated for devices for console logins... (man console.perms for more details - it is part of the pam package). -- Fernando ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
