/dev/audio

[Bill Tangren]

I have noticed that I am the owner of the device file /dev/audio, on my RHEL ES4 
system:

[bjt at mach2 Desktop]$ ll /dev/audio
crw-------  1 bjt root 14, 4 Sep 25 08:05 /dev/audio

I am required to make root the owner of this file. However, when I change the 
owner to root, it changes back, I think on reboot.

Does anyone know at what point this file is created or modified in the boot 
process? And why would a non privileged used be the owner?

Thanks!

Bill Tangren