On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 01:22:25PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> >
> > I have KDE, and whenever it starts up, it says it cannot initialize the
> > sound, because /dev/dsp returns "permission denied". (I am assuming
> > that dev/dsp refers to the DSP on the sound card.)
> >
> > Likewise, I cannot run Floppy services unless I log in as root.
> >
> > Then, too, when I try to run kppp, it fails to recognize the modem, even
> > when I try to access the modem through the stty ports.
> >
> > I'd really rather just give permission for access to these things, if
> > that is possible. How would I modify the permissions for these things,
> > in general? We have 3 users, plus root, 1 computer system. I therefore
> > could either modify it for each, or modify it for all, but I'd like to
> > know how to do this.
> >
> > Also, is there anything particularly risky about doing that?
>
> If you look at the files in /dev you will note each is also part of a special
> group. dsp is audio, floppy is floppy, your modem should be dialout. The
> debian approach is to simply add the user(s) who need access to the right
> groups. You can accomplish this easily by editing /etc/groups and adding the
> name(s) as a comma separated list to the end of the line desired.
Instead of editing files, why not let adduser do the legwork:
# adduser somebody floppy
# adduser somebody audio
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