Re: permisions in the /dev directory
On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 01:28:45 GMT, Scotty Fitzgerald
<sfitz007@bestweb.net> wrote:
> Part of my modem problem was that there write permission for the user
> group for the devices in the /dev directory was not set. I have a
> question....
>
> Should the whole /dev directory have the the group-write attribute set
> down the whole directory?!
No
> Reason I ask is that some of the KDE sounds only play for the root
> user, yet my regular user is a member of the audio group. I think I
> have the same problem here. So what are the names of the devices
> involved in audio withing the /dev directory I have to look at?
ls -l /dev | grep audio
The premissions on the output files on my system are:
crw-rw----
> I also noticed that the sudo command does not work, even tho my user
> login is a member of sudoers. Betcha this is a read permission for
> the group problem on the sudoer configuration file. Whattya think?
It is not the permission problem. Are you editing the file with
visudo? To let a user run any command with sudo add a line such as the
following:
username ALL = (ALL) ALL
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