Re: ?? user in group audio -- but only root can play sound

[Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net>]

Hi Chris,
* Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> [20. Jan. 2016]:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 06:28:17PM +0100, Gregor Zattler wrote:
>> Thinking about: mpd is also not in these groups and I can her
>> music.
>> 
>> So that's still not it.
>> 
>> When I play some sound, I see aplay working, but do not hear sound:
>> 
>>      $ play  /home/grfz/Downloads/tuxok.wav
> 
> Just as an aside, that is not the aplay command. Compare man aplay, and
> man play.

You are right of course.  play is an alias for sox on my system.
They give different output on the terminal, but otherwise they
behave the same: sound as root no sound as user.


Ciao, Gregor
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