/dev/dsp not honouring permission settings

[Chris Rouch]

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 11:25:44 -0500
Lorenzo Prince <lorenzo at prince.homelinux.org> wrote:

> 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?
>
I think that line should be 
<console>  0777 <sound>       0777 root.sound

or better
<console>  0660 <sound>       0660 root.sound

This will leave the device in group sound when no-one is logged in on
the console.

Chris