RE: workman and sound
On 08-Feb-99 Richard Hall wrote:
> I went ahead and did 'chmod 666 /dev/audio' and that made workman work. I
> really hate doing that, though. It seems like there should be a way to
> make /dev/audio available to me and various processes I start like
> workman without making it world writable and without having to do group
> calisthenics.
The proper thing to do is to add any user that wants sound to the audio group.
You stated sound worked, so I assumed it was not a permission problem.
Debian uses groups like audio because this means that many apps that need to be
setuid do not or only need setgrid.
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