On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Shaleh wrote: > > On 08-Feb-99 Richard Hall wrote: > > I went ahead and did 'chmod 666 /dev/audio' and that made workman work. I > > really hate doing that, though. It seems like there should be a way to > > make /dev/audio available to me and various processes I start like > > workman without making it world writable and without having to do group > > calisthenics. > > The proper thing to do is to add any user that wants sound to the audio > group. > You stated sound worked, so I assumed it was not a permission problem. > > Debian uses groups like audio because this means that many apps that need to > be > setuid do not or only need setgrid. >
So how come this didn't work for me? When I first got sound working, I added myself to group audio, but I had to explicitly change groups any time I wanted to use sound. Also, I tried to figure out how to get Netscape to run as group audio by editing the /usr/bin/X11/netscape script, but never succeeded, not surprising given my inexperience with scripts. I ended up making /dev/audio part of my personal group, and now I've completely bastardized it with chmod 666. So you're saying that workman runs under group audio, and if /dev/audio is in that group and I chmod it to 660, I'll get music. Okay. How can I convince Netscape to run as group audio and not under my user id? Richard Hall Network Services University of Tennessee
