Aisha, On Wednesday, 2021-05-19 19:14:27 -0400, you wrote:
> ... > Are you running your machine day-to-day as root? > That sounds like a recipe for disaster... Of course not. But if that quote [1] had any substance in it, it COULD happen that some deamon running as user "root" failed because of "root" not being in the correct groups. > That preaching aside, I do have audio working as a normal user and my groups > are - > > $ groups aisha > wheel video portage lxc lxd aisha > $ groups root > root bin daemon sys adm disk wheel floppy tape video lxc lxd So neither your own id nor "root" is a member of group "audio" and audio is working nevertheless. Hum, that just triggers the next question to all Gentooers: What the heck is group "audio" good for? > ... > > [1] > > https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=3640443#post3640443 Sincerely, Rainer
