Re: soundserver/ logout

From: Andreas Janssen (andreas.janssen_at_bigfoot.com)
Date: 07/19/03 

Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 19:23:03 +0200

Hello

Debian wrote:

> Looking at the permissions on /dev/dsp the access permissions are set
> to:user r-w=on e-s off
> to group r-w=on e-s off
> others off
>
> ownership is
> root
> audio

That is the standard configuration. Sound is only accessible to root and
members of the audio group.

> I tried changeing the ownership to mark(my user) and no go I changed it
> back and tried logging in as root and it said the same error message
> except device not found instead of permission denied
>
> this stuff is all new to me and I've been reading everything i can.
> thanks Mark

Changing the ownership of /dev/dsp to your user account is not the
recommended way (and maybe not sufficient). Try to restore the original
ownership and permissions to root.audio and crw-rw----. Next, make sure
your user is in the audio group. You can use kuser for this (don't forget
to save the settings) or edit /etc/group manually. There you can find the
following line:
        audio:x:29:
Change it to:
        audio:x:29:mark
After you added your user account to the audio group either with kuser or
manually, log out and log in again. Sound should work from then on.

best regards
        Andreas Janssen 

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