Re: [newbie] Setting up a 2nd user - Getting there

2004-05-11 Thread Peter
bascule Thanks, This all works now like a dream. Peter On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 00:45, bascule wrote: to change permissions you can use 'chmod' on the command line, as root: cd /dev/sound chmod g+rw the g stands for group (which is audio) and the +rw should be self explanatory, if the owner

Re: [newbie] Setting up a 2nd user - Getting there

2004-05-10 Thread Peter
Thanks Derek and bascule. I have now setup KDE/MDK for ALSA, and logging in/out between users works fine. Have also put them both in 'audio' group I said I was a newbie so... how do i give the audio group rw perms? also changing the console.perms, and commenting out the sound line results

Re: [newbie] Setting up a 2nd user - Getting there

2004-05-10 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 10 May 2004 15:58, Peter wrote: Thanks Derek and bascule. I have now setup KDE/MDK for ALSA, and logging in/out between users works fine. Have also put them both in 'audio' group I said I was a newbie so... how do i give the audio group rw perms? also changing the

Re: [newbie] Setting up a 2nd user - Getting there

2004-05-10 Thread Peter
Derek, Yes it works fine if I log out, and log dominic in, but i *would* like to just switch session for him. If you can let me know how to change permissions on the audio group, then this would help. Peter. On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 16:29, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 10 May 2004 15:58,

Re: [newbie] Setting up a 2nd user - Getting there

2004-05-10 Thread bascule
to change permissions you can use 'chmod' on the command line, as root: cd /dev/sound chmod g+rw the g stands for group (which is audio) and the +rw should be self explanatory, if the owner is not root and the group audio then do: chown root.audio * (assuming you are in the /dev/sound directory,

[newbie] Setting up a 2nd user

2004-05-10 Thread Peter
Hi All, Been running MDK 10.0 (CE) for about a week, and beginning to get used to it. (Thanks to Derek for his help). Still VERY new to Linux, so will be asking questions. I have added a 2nd user (dominic), and am having a problem allowing 'dominic' to use sound. It says 'permission denied',

Re: [newbie] Setting up a 2nd user

2004-05-10 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 10 May 2004 09:36, Peter wrote: Hi All, Been running MDK 10.0 (CE) for about a week, and beginning to get used to it. (Thanks to Derek for his help). Still VERY new to Linux, so will be asking questions. I have added a 2nd user (dominic), and am having a problem allowing

Re: [newbie] Setting up a 2nd user

2004-05-10 Thread bascule
i'm guessing that this happens when you are also logged on and youhave started a second session, if you look in /etc/security/console.perms you will see a list pertaining to what permissions device get assigned when someone logs in and the default perms when you log out, note that all the