On 08-Feb-99 Richard Hall wrote: > I went ahead and did 'chmod 666 /dev/audio' and that made workman work. I > really hate doing that, though. It seems like there should be a way to > make /dev/audio available to me and various processes I start like > workman without making it world writable and without having to do group > calisthenics.
The proper thing to do is to add any user that wants sound to the audio group. You stated sound worked, so I assumed it was not a permission problem. Debian uses groups like audio because this means that many apps that need to be setuid do not or only need setgrid.
