Christopher Barry wrote: > > Christopher Barry wrote: > > > > George Bonser wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Christopher Barry wrote: > > > > > > > I'm added to group audio and I had the permissions of /dev/audio and > > > > /dev/dsp set to 770 so before I file a bug report should I mess with > > > > anything else? If it would neither run as root nor as a user, that would > > > > be one thing, but this is just too weird. I can't think of any more > > > > groups or permissions that would need fiddling with. > > > > > > Maybe you missed my point ... is /dev/audio and /dev/dsp still owned by > > > the audio group or has the ownership changed to root root? > > > > > > > They've been root.audio from the beginning, I was just playing with some > > stuff though and made some progress. These are the default permissions, > > my username is cbarry and I am in group audio: > > > > $ ls -l /dev/audio /dev/dsp > > crwxrwx--- 1 root audio 14, 4 Jul 20 17:45 /dev/audio > > crwxrwx--- 1 root audio 14, 3 Jul 20 17:45 /dev/dsp > > > > I noticed I still couldn't catenate a file to /dev/audio though because > > of permission denied so I changed them to this: > > > > crwxrwxrwx 1 root audio 14, 4 Jul 20 17:45 /dev/audio > > crwxrwxrwx 1 root audio 14, 3 Jul 20 17:45 /dev/dsp > > > > Now this really has me confused. I can play files now as a user but I > > can't use the volume control and speaker balance as they do absolutely > > nothing. I'm stuck with one set volume, while again with root everything > > is perfect. If I'm a member of group audio, why did I have to change the > > permissions from what they were to write to /dev/audio? I really am a > > newbie to the unixy way of doing things with all these permissions. I've > > been using MS for too many years I guess. I guess for volume control and > > speaker balance there's another /dev device but I'll be damned if I know > > which one. > > I just looked at my /etc/group file for the first time. Maybe part of it > is wrong? I attached a copy.
Okay, I did chmod 777 /dev/mixer and everything works now. Mixer is also root.audio, so I really am clueless here as to why I can't use them with 770 permissions. When I configured dialup networking way back when, all I did was adduser cbarry dip and I could use all those **0 root.dip files, so now that I'm trying to use **0 root.audio files after doing adduser cbarry audio I'm really confused. > > > > George Bonser > > > > > > Microsoft! Which end of the stick do you want today? > > > > > > -- > > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > root:x:0: > daemon:x:1: > bin:x:2: > sys:x:3: > adm:x:4: > tty:x:5: > disk:x:6: > lp:x:7:lp > mail:x:8: > news:x:9: > uucp:x:10: > proxy:x:13: > kmem:x:15: > dialout:x:20: > fax:x:21: > voice:x:22: > cdrom:x:24: > floppy:x:25: > tape:x:26: > sudo:x:27: > audio:x:29:cbarry > dip:x:30:cbarry > majordom:x:31:majordom > postgres:x:32: > www-data:x:33: > backup:x:34: > msql:x:36: > operator:x:37: > list:x:38: > irc:x:39: > src:x:40: > gnats:x:41: > shadow:x:42: > staff:x:50: > games:x:60: > qmail:x:70: > users:x:100: > nogroup:x:65534: > cbarry:x:1000: -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null