On Monday, June 22nd, 2026 at 2:54 PM, Tomoaki AOKI <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jun 2026 06:23:36 +0000 > [email protected] wrote: > > > has something been recently changed in regards to user permissions for > > /dev/dsp,i updated my 16-current system after some days and am noticing > > that now a non root user which was able to access /dev/dsp and play sound > > is now unable to do so and fails with Failed to open '/dev/dsp': Permission > > denied > > You'll need to add the user who need to access audio devices > to recently added audio group (gid=43) just like you'll be doing > for X11/Wayland screens for video (gid=44) group. > > IIRC, audio group is added to stable/15, too, but switches for > audio device to audio group is NOT merged not to violate POLA. > > This is described in /usr/src/UPDATING at the entry dated 20260521. > https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/tree/UPDATING#n42 > > Please habitally confirm UPDATING. I believe it should be > a good habit. > > Regards. > > > -- > Tomoaki AOKI <[email protected]> > sorry i forgot to clarify properly,i didn't anticipate a failed merge of /etc/group by pkg during upgrade, i had checked the available groups after upgrade but audio group wasn't available due to the failed merge(at that point i wasn't aware the merge failed) so i assumed it wasn't the problem thanks for the reminder about UPDATING entries,they slipped my mind
