On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 11:15:19AM +0100, Alessandro Amici wrote:
hi,
I installed potato and now upgraded to 2.2r1 and have a problem with
sound.
permissions of the /dev/dsp* devices are crw-rw and ownership is
root.audio.
this seem to be sane if as a counterpart audio applications were owned
by root.audio and set sgid, but this is not the case!
I checked mpg123 and xmms, they are all not able to write to /dev/dsp*
devices.
no, the idea behind root.audio 0660 permissions is to restrict access
to the sound hardware only to trusted users, otherwise any bozo with a
shell account can play any sound they want which could be potentially
annoying.
the proper solution is to add yourself to group audio:
adduser me audio
changing owner and permissions everything works.
don't do that, add yourself to group audio instead.
did I mess up something in the installation?
depends what permissions you used.
is there a standard way to make all audio apps working properly?
yes, add yourself to group audio
--
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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