Re: workman and sound
On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 01:16 +0000, M.C. Vernon wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Richard Hall wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Shaleh wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > 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.
>
> It has to be said that I can only play CDs as root, despite chgrping
> /dev/cdrom to audio, and adding myself to /dev/cdrom....
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you are using shadow passwords just adding
a user to /etc/group manually is not enough, you have to use adduser or
some other method to set it in /etc/group-.
Cheers
Dave
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