On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Sylvain GIL wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 05:51:48PM -0700, R. David Whitlock wrote:
> > Whenever I reboot my Mandrake 6.0 system, the permissions on several
> > important files change from 666 to 600 so that other users are unable to
> > use them.  Each time I reboot, I have to change them back.
> > This matters cause it happens to files in my /dev/ heirarchy, notably
> > /dev/audio and /dev/dsp.  So my wife logs in after I, and tries to use the
> > sound player, to no avail, since I am the owner of the files and they are
> > both mode 600.
> 
> It is pam stuff. Just take a look at /etc/security/console.perms and do
> man console.perms
> 

Ding ding, Circle gets a square. :)

Theres more detail in the archives for those that need it.

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