Re: Bug#3030: permissions of audio devices

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Mike Coleman writes ("Bug#3030: permissions of audio devices"):
> Package: base (?)
> 
> The permissions of /dev/dsp and friends are not world-writable by default.  It
> would be nice if they could be chown'ed to whoever's logged in at the console,
> but lacking that, making them world-writable seems like a better default.

Simply put the people who you want to be able to access the audio
devices in the audio group.

Making them world-writeable is a bad bad idea.

I'm closing this bug report.

Ian.