Ah...the rawness...

[Rick Stevens]

Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Jonathan Kamens (jik at kamens.brookline.ma.us) said: 
>> No, I think it's because permissions aren't being set properly on the  
>> devices in /dev/snd:
>>
>> jik2:~!1009$ ls -l /dev/snd
>> total 0
>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root      80 2009-07-02 17:22 by-path
>> crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 9 2009-07-02 17:22 controlC0
>> crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 4 2009-07-02 17:22 controlC2
>> crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 8 2009-07-02 17:22 pcmC0D0c
>> crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 7 2009-07-02 17:22 pcmC0D0p
>> crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 6 2009-07-02 17:22 pcmC0D1c
>> crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 5 2009-07-02 17:22 pcmC0D1p
>> crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 3 2009-07-02 17:22 pcmC2D0c
>> crw-rw---- 1 root audio 116, 2 2009-07-02 17:22 timer
>>
>> udev bug?
> 
> Permissions should be handled via ACL, which ls won't show.

Ah, yes, but shouldn't "ls -l" show a "+" as the last character of
the permissions if ACLs are in use?  Jonathan's list doesn't show
them, so it ma be that the ACLs aren't set.

Johnathan, what does "getfacl /dev/snd/*" show?  Is the user the
desktop is running as shown in a "user::" line?
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