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Re: Best way to setup a Soundblaster Live card






>On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 03:36:52PM +1000, Robert Martinovic wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 05:43:15PM +0200, Robert Voigt wrote:
>> > Don't forget to add your users to group audio, it's a common newbie
>> trap
>>
>> As a newbie, can someone tell me how this is done? I have compiled
>> 2.4.5 with OSS support and now just need to add the users to this
>> group
>
>    # adduser [user] audio

Yup.

>also helpful is
>    # adduser [user] disk
>so that a user can user the CDROM after
>    ln -s /dev/cdrom /dev/hd[x]

Nope. This will allow "user" to do something like "cat /dev/null >
/dev/hd[x]" and erase the hard drive. You should change you CDROM to group
"cdrom" (chgrp cdrom /dev/hd[x]) and add yourself to that group for CD
access.

Scott





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