Share sound wmultiple users 902
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 18:59:28 +0200, Schraalhans Keukenmeester staggered into the Black Sun and said:
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 17:24:41 GMT, ANC staggered into the Black Sun and said: Real Modems cost more than LoseModems. If you built laptops, which piece of hardware would...
Take a look at the output of "ls -ldev-sound" (or "ls -ldev-dsp* " if Fedora hasn't moved to udev yet.) That'll probably tell you that the sound device files are owned by hans:hans . Most distros run a script when a user successfully logs in to X or a tty, and this script typically changes ownership of some devices so that the user who logged in owns those devices.
If you have more than one user who needs to accessdev-sound-dsp* , then you typically create an "audio" group, make every user who needs to use the sound devices a member of the audio group, and set up youretc-udev-rules.d-50-udev.rules to contain lines like so:
KERNEL=="dsp", NAME="sound-%k", SYMLINK+="%k", GROUP="audio" KERNEL=="dsp0-9*", NAME="sound-%k", SYMLINK+="%k", GROUP="audio"
...that way, udevd will createdev-sound-dsp anddev-sound-dsp0-9 as well as symlinks fordev-dsp* that point to those devices. The devices will all be owned by group audio. HTH,
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