Date: Fri, 17 May 96 02:48 BST From: Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> 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. You're right of course--I think my brain slipped out of gear... However, perhaps /dev/sndstat should still be world-readable? --Mike