Ah, this is very helpful, thanks. Is there some sort of
security reason for the default permissions? It seems like
overkill for a soundcard.
-Steve
Dave Mielke wrote:
>
> [quoted lines by Matthew Campbell on April 8, 2001, at 14:26]
>
> >Under both
> >Red Hat Linux and Linux-Mandrake, when you're logged in on the
> >console, you own the audio devices among other things; but when you
> >log out, you no longer have access to them.
>
> It's because logging in uses PAM. The problem can be corrected by modifying the
> file "/etc/security/console.perms". In it, you'll find a record which looks
> like:
>
> <console> 0600 <sound> 0640 root.sys
>
> This means that the sound devices will be owned by you, with permissions of
> 0600, when you log in, and owned by user root and group sys, with permissions
> of 0640, when you log out. You can correct your problem by changing this line
> to look like:
>
> <console> 0662 <sound> 0662 root.sys
>
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