/dev/audio

Bill Tangren bjt at aa.usno.navy.mil
Fri Sep 29 13:48:14 UTC 2006


A.Fadyushin at it-centre.ru wrote:
> An ownership on /dev/audio and similar device files changes at the time
> when someone logs in on the console. The user who logged in from console
> becomes the owner of those files. The change of owhership is performed
> using PAM - files in /etc/pam.d usually contain lines like
> session    optional     /lib/security/pam_console.so
> for that purpose.
> The list of device files which should change owner upon user login from
> console is controlled by the list of "console device classes" in
> /etc/security/console.perms
> If you need to permanently have root as the owner of /dev/audio, you
> should remove /dev/audio from the list of console devices.
> 
> Alexey Fadyushin
> Brainbench MVP for Linux
> http://www.brainbench.com
> 

If I remove /dev/audio from the list of console devices, can a user who logs in 
to the console listen to audio?




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