Odd ALSA problem

[Charles R. Anderson]

On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 05:35:05PM +0100, Paul wrote:
> I go in as su and chown root.sound /dev/dsp* - this changes the owner of
> the dsp* devices to root.sound. Log out as su, logout as any user. Log
> in as me and do ls -l /dev/dsp* and all bar /dev/dsp has the ownership
> changed to paul.sound

This is caused by pam_console and controlled by
/etc/security/console.perms.  Users who log into the console will
automatically get permissions to the console devices, such as sound
cards.  The permissions are automatically reverted to root upon
logout.