On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 08:28:59PM -0800, Dale Morris wrote: > 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..) no. chmod 660 /dev/cdrom chgrp cdrom /dev/cdrom (or rather its target since its a symlink) adduser yourusername cdrom -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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