/dev/dsp - I don't want to fight with it ... (permissions)

[Michael A. Peters]

I have a shell script that records from line in.
I call shell script from cron.

When I am logged in at console - it works.
PAM does its thing.

When I am not logged in - permission denied.

In other distributions, this is easily solved by putting the user into
the audio group, and /dev/dsp has 660 permissions.

I tried doing a similar thing with fedora.
Unfortunately Fedora thinks it is smarter than me, and resets the
permissions when I reboot.

How do I get Fedora to not revert a change I made for a reason?
I really don't want to have to be logged in - the point of the cron job
is to record at a specified time when I'm not home.

Thanks for suggestions.

btw - why doesn't Fedora use an audio group that a sysadmin can simply
add users to? That really makes a lot more sense than using PAM for this
- at least to me it does.