Actually, I thought the correct procedure was to add the user to the
audio group, allowing control over who can/cant play sound. I think
there is a case to have audio added as a default group to any user
created though.
BillK
Rial Juan 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?
>
