Re: woody install success 7200/120
On 12 Jul, this message from Steve Pacenka echoed through cyberspace:
> On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 16:18, Michel Lanners wrote:
>> On 11 Jul, this message from Steve Pacenka echoed through cyberspace:
>> > Activating audio required modprobe dmasound (made permandent via echo
>> > dmasound >>/etc/modules ), chmod 666 /dev/dsp and /dev/mixer to allow
>> > non-root to use sound.
>>
>> Add the users needing audio access to group audio.
>
> Thanks for the hint.
You're welcome. In Debian, there's always a simple way to make those
things work OK, without going 'big stuff' like chmod 777.
> Is there some security risk from having audio devices world writable?
Probably not; it all depends on your level of paranoia and what type of
machine you're runing (personal workstation, server, ...).
Cheers
Michel
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