Rial Juan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Permissions. I usually make /dev/dsp world writable, that solves the
> problem.
>
> I never understood why only root is allowed to play sound on a freshly
> installed system; this forces users to either work as root all the time
> (insecure) or modify the permissions anyway, so why don't modern distros
> set up the permissions right from the start and save us a couple o'
> keystrokes?
Maybe because you may not really want world access to the ability to
LISTEN to anything around your machine, eh?
Unless you meant chmod 622 /dev/dsp as opposed to chmod 666 /dev/dsp...
rc
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