pulseaudio == disaster ??

[Nalin Dahyabhai]

On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 01:05:51PM -0500, David A. De Graaf wrote:
> In the original Fedora 8 configuration we had:
>   # ll /dev/snd
>   total 0
>   crw-rw----+ 1 root root 116, 8 2007-11-17 10:09 controlC0
>   crw-rw----+ 1 root root 116, 4 2007-11-17 10:09 midiC0D0
>   crw-rw----+ 1 root root 116, 7 2007-11-17 10:09 pcmC0D0c
>   crw-rw----+ 1 root root 116, 6 2007-11-17 10:09 pcmC0D0p
>   crw-rw----+ 1 root root 116, 5 2007-11-17 10:09 pcmC0D1p
>   crw-rw----+ 1 root root 116, 3 2007-11-17 10:09 seq
>   crw-rw----+ 1 root root 116, 2 2007-11-17 10:08 timer
> 
> With only root able to access these file, it was impossible for an
> ordinary user to start the pulseaudio daemon.

In Fedora 8 this was switched being handled by ACLs maintained by
ConsoleKit.  Can you run 'getfacl' on these devices and check its
output?

Nalin