On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Stephen Carville wrote:
> No I haven't found the cause fro the Internet Explorer like behavior
> :-) yet but another problem has cropped up on my Mandrake installation.
Have a look in /usr/share/apps/kfm and a work around will come to you,
as to why it happens i have not been able to check yet
> When I log into KDE, the owner and permissions of a host of files in
> /dev/are changed. All of the file related to sound (dsp, mixer,
> audio, etc) are changed to be owned by me. Also all of the cdrom
> and floppy descriptors get the owner and permissions changed as well.
>
> OK, I log out and su to root. I change the owners of the files back to
> root and set the permissions to 666. On my RH 5.2 with KDE 1.1.1
> install this works fine and lets every user access the sound cards.
> When I log back into KDE as a normal user, the ownership is changed and
> the file permissions are reset to 600.
>
> I could live with (but not like) the change of ownership but goddammit,
> the change in permissions means my wife cannot use the sounds system if
> I log in before she does. If she logs in first, she grabs the files and
> I am locked out from using sound. What the hell is happening here? Is
> this a Mandrake problem (it doesn't happen on my Redhat 5.2 system) or a
> KDE problem? More importantly: can it be fixed?
There could be several causes, pam controls these permissions via
/etc/security/console.perms. My local work around removes the audio
devices from pam's control and sets the ownership as root:users crw-rw---
and I add all the family to the group users. This gives the whole family
access to the audio devices at anytime.
Rpms are available @ ftp://jumpstart.netpirate.org/pub/mdk-test/
you'll have to add the users to the group, linuxconf can do this
or edit /etc/group (don't forget to rerun grpconv if your useing
passwd shadow).
the pam package is in cooker, the dev package with the modification got
lost i'll reupload it and it'll be on the mirrors within a few hours.
If no one has any complaints about this I'll be adding a group "audio"
and returning the audio devices to pams control with permissions
user_loged_in:audio crw-rw--- so it won't interfer with any exsisting
setups useing the group users.
> --
> Stephen Carville
> --
> Good News! NT is now approaching 23x6 availability!
>
