Re: install questions

[Dale Morris <dlm@well.com>]

Ethan Benson [erbenson@alaska.net] wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 05:08:20AM -0800, Dale Morris wrote:
> > I just did a fresh install of 2.2 by cd. Couple of questions:
> > 1. I didn't have sound in my user directory, but had it as root. I did a
> > chmod 666 /dev/dsp and it works but I'm not sure that's the proper
> > permission. What's the right permission?
> 
> chmod 660 /dev/dsp
> adduser yourusername audio
> 

I also had to do a chmod 666 to get /dev/cdrom working in my user directory.
Is that acceptable from a security standpoint? (sound sure works good..)

thanks

dale