My /dev/dsp is not linked to anything. Also it stays owned by root even when
I log in as another user. Is that correct? From what I understand from your
email /dev/dsp should be a link and /dev/dsp should be owned by the user when
the user logs in.
My computer boots up to kdm.
Robert
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, you wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, you wrote:
> >Guillaume Cottenceau a �crit :
> >> robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> > what are the correct permissions for /dev/dsp?
> >> >
> >> > XMMS works fine when I run as root, but when I run XMMS as a user I
> >> > get an error message about permissions denying access to /dev/dsp
> >>
> >> the user physically logon on the machine should get it for him.
> >
> >Yes, it should :-)
> >In my own case, it's pure fantasy.
> >For the moment i have :
> >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root audio 11 ao� 8 05:58 /dev/dsp ->
> >.../dev/dsp0
> >crw------- 1 guillaum audio 14, 3 jui 19 18:48 /dev/dsp0
> >crw------- 1 guillaum audio 14, 19 jui 19 18:48 /dev/dsp1
> >crw------- 1 guillaum audio 14, 35 jui 19 18:48 /dev/dsp2
> >crw------- 1 guillaum audio 14, 51 jui 19 18:48 /dev/dsp3
> >[guillaume@agathe guillaume]$ ll /dev/mixer*
> >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 ao� 8 05:58 /dev/mixer ->
> >.../dev/mixer0
> >crw------- 1 guillaum audio 14, 0 jui 19 18:48 /dev/mixer0
> >crw------- 1 guillaum audio 14, 16 jui 19 18:48 /dev/mixer1
> >crw------- 1 guillaum audio 14, 32 jui 19 18:48 /dev/mixer2
> >crw------- 1 guillaum audio 14, 48 jui 19 18:48 /dev/mixer3
> >/dev/mixer and /dev/dsp symlink doesn't have the same group !? And
> >what's the use of audio group in this situation ?
>
> Groups and users for a symlink don't matter at all. See the permissions
> of the symlink itself : rwxrwxrwx, always. What matters is the file pointed
> to.
