On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 02:10:13AM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote:
> > My confusion is regarding adding my user name to
> > a new group and changing the group of the sound
> > device. between usermod, chgrp, chown, I'm
> > confused. what do I need to do to get my user
> > name to access the sound device?
>
> The group "audio" is there for this purpose. You do not have to add
> it, is is already there on debian systems.
>
> On my system, the audio devices are owned by the group "audio".
>
> Example: "ls -l /dev/dsp" shows:
> crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 Jul 9 2000 /dev/dsp
>
> In fact, if you do "ls -l /dev | grep audio", you'll see the whole lot
> of audio devices.
>
> So all you need to get access to these devices is to be in group "audio".
> Do, as root, "addgroup user audio" to add user to that group. Now the
^^^^^
That should be: adduser
> user has to either login again (or restart x11), or type "newgrp" in
> the shell from which to access audio devices.
>
> You can check the groups you are (or really: your process is) currently
> in with the "id" and "groups" commands.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Joost