Re: workman and sound

["Daniel J. Brosemer" <odin@bolverk.dorm.org>]

On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Dave Swegen wrote:

[snip]
> > 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-.

I'm not an expert by any means, but I think you can just add users to
groups in /etc/group (though I don't know if you can add whole groups like
that).  I have done that quite often and it seems to work (I'm using
shadow).

-Dan