Re: Sound on Linux?

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:31:15 +0100
Johannes Wiedersich <johannes@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de> wrote:

> Celejar wrote:
> > The default groups to which new users are added (when created with
> > 'adduser --add-extra-groups') is specified in '/etc/adduser.conf' by
> > the line beginning 'EXTRA_GROUPS'; the default does include 'audio'. On
> > my Sid system, the (non-root) user that I created during install
> > belongs to all those groups, but a user that I created subsequently
> > isn't, presumably because the installer used the '--add-extra-groups'
> > option and I didn't.
> 
> on sarge, however:
> $ grep EXTRA /etc/adduser.conf
> returns nothing;
> 
> on etch, however:
> #EXTRA_GROUPS="dialout cdrom floppy audio src video lp src users"
> # If ADD_EXTRA_GROUPS is set to something non-zero, the EXTRA_GROUPS
> #ADD_EXTRA_GROUPS=1
> #EXTRA_GROUPS="dialout cdrom floppy audio src video lp users"
> 
> ie. all commented out, ie. you have to modify adduser.conf

If adduser is called with the 'add_extra_groups' (I mistakenly used
hyphens in my original message) option, then the new user is added even
if 'ADD_EXTRA_GROUPS' is left at the default and 'adduser.conf' is not
modified.

Celejar