On Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 08:39:45PM -0600, Austin Hook wrote: > > Can't seem to parse the instructions in > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade67.html > > for how to re-enable an ordinary non root user of Firefox or mplayer to > output audio. > > mplayer works fine as root, but what command lines are necessary to allow > a non root user get sound output? > > let's username is: joeuser >
Hi, Sound is supposed to work by default for regular users. Check if sndiod(8) is still running and if /dev/audio* have the correct permissions (normally MAKEDEV, part of the upgrade is supposed to fix update the permissions). FWIW, starting 6.7, for improved security, regular users have no direct access to /dev/audioX anymore. Sound must go through sndiod(8), which is running by default. For sndiod(8) to access the hardware, the below device nodes ownership and permissions are needed: $ ls -al /dev/audio* /dev/rmidi* crw-rw---- 1 root _sndiop 42, 0 Aug 29 08:00 /dev/audio0 crw-rw---- 1 root _sndiop 42, 1 Jul 27 10:16 /dev/audio1 crw-rw---- 1 root _sndiop 42, 2 Jul 27 10:16 /dev/audio2 crw-rw---- 1 root _sndiop 42, 3 Jul 27 10:16 /dev/audio3 crw-rw---- 1 root _sndiop 42, 192 Jul 27 10:16 /dev/audioctl0 crw-rw---- 1 root _sndiop 42, 193 Jul 27 10:16 /dev/audioctl1 crw-rw---- 1 root _sndiop 42, 194 Jul 27 10:16 /dev/audioctl2 crw-rw---- 1 root _sndiop 42, 195 Jul 27 10:16 /dev/audioctl3 crw-rw---- 1 root _sndiop 52, 0 Jul 27 10:16 /dev/rmidi0 crw-rw---- 1 root _sndiop 52, 1 Jul 27 10:16 /dev/rmidi1 crw-rw---- 1 root _sndiop 52, 2 Jul 27 10:16 /dev/rmidi2 crw-rw---- 1 root _sndiop 52, 3 Jul 27 10:16 /dev/rmidi3 crw-rw---- 1 root _sndiop 52, 4 Jul 27 10:16 /dev/rmidi4 crw-rw---- 1 root _sndiop 52, 5 Jul 27 10:16 /dev/rmidi5 crw-rw---- 1 root _sndiop 52, 6 Jul 27 10:16 /dev/rmidi6 crw-rw---- 1 root _sndiop 52, 7 Jul 27 10:16 /dev/rmidi7
