hi chocovim, dido, guys,
i think this is the normal linux behavior.
here are instructions for giving access to device files to ordinary users:
http://www.redhat.com/support/manuals/RHL-6.1-Manual/ref-guide/s1-sysadmin-console-access.html
it's for redhat, but i'm sure mr cacho can translate it to mandrakish...
hth,
-eric
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, you wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Juan Miguel Cacho wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I keep changing the ownership of /dev/audio* and /dev/dsp* so that a
> > normal user can play music, but whever I turn my pc back on the
> > ownership and perms revert to the previous one... bad trip 'to ah! How
> > can I permanently set the ownership and perms? I even tried doing it
> > in MAKEDEV, pero balik pa rin sa dati.
> >
>
> What causes this by the way? I've seen this type of behavior with other
> devices as well, for instance with /dev/ttyS1. I've tried chmoding it to
> 666 but after a reboot it reverts to 600. I can find nothing in the init
> scripts that causes such spontaneous changes in device permissions.
>
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