sound card permissions

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 01:25:48 -0500, Lorenzo Prince wrote:

> Is there any way I can maintain 777 permission on /dev/dsp or else change the
> group to something other than root?  I have three users on my machine who may be
> logged in at the same time who both need access to /dev/dsp.  I don't, however,
> want all those users to be in group root.  But I don't care too much whether or
> not the whole world can play sounds on my system, well, not like I care about my
> password file. ;)  So can I permanently change the group ownership of /dev/dsp
> or maintain 777 permissions?  I tried putting
> 
> chmod 777 /dev/dsp
> 
> in /etc/rc.local and in ~/.bashrc with no luck.

You could do it in /etc/security/console.perms
 
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