How to stop permissions on /dev/snd devices being changed?

Reid Rivenburgh reidr at pobox.com
Tue Mar 4 00:24:31 UTC 2008


On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 05:13:41PM -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>  > Chris G wrote:
>  >> I seem to need to give all users permissions on the devices
>  >> in/dev/snd.
>  >>
>  >> However if I set the permissions to 0666 they revert to 0660 when I
>  >> reboot the system.  How do I get the more open permissions to stick?
>  >>
>  > What version of Fedora are you running? It makes a difference in how we
>  > answer your question. If FC6, and I believe F7, they are controlled by
>  > console.perms. For F8, you would probably have to add a udev rule to set
>  > them - I have not checked for a rule for setting sound devices...
>  >
>  Yes, sorry, it's Fedora 8 where I have the problem.  My previous
>  Fedora 7 seemd to be OK.

I think I'm in a similar situation.  I often have two users logged in
simultaneously (:0 and :1), and I'd like both to be able to access
sound-related devices.  In the past I fiddled with console.perms, but
I guess that's not the way F8 works.  I'm curious if my occasional
inability to start the pulseaudio volume control ("connection
refused", I think) is related.  (I just rebooted, and now it works for
me.  I'm the first user to login [on :1], though.  Maybe now it won't
work for :0 users?)

Reid




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