/dev/dsp not honouring permission settings

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Do, den 08.01.2004 schrieb Lorenzo Prince um 17:25:
> hi,
> 
> I am having a real problem with /dev/dsp.  I first tried creating a group called
> sound, adding all my local users to this group and chgrp sound /dev/dsp.  This
> works in theory and in ls, but the first user who logged in is still the only one
> who can play sound.  I then just decided to change the permissions to 777 in
> /etc/security/console.perms.  The line now looks like this:
> 
> <console>  0777 <sound>       0777 root
> 
> But when I log out and back in,
> 
> ls -l /dev/dsp
> crwxrwx---    1 lorenzo  sound     14,   3 Jan 30  2003 /dev/dsp
> 
> And when I reboot, the group reverts to root and the permissions stay the same.
> 
> What did I miss?
> 
> PRINCE

Put your users which should be able to listen to sound / using /dev/dsp
into the group sound.

Alexander


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