On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 10:02:18AM -0500, Duncan Hill wrote:
>
> I currently run xmms as a regular user under X. Logging in as that
> user requires me to set /dev/dsp either owned by the user, or at least
> globally writeable. Not a problem. As soon as I log root in from the
> console, the permissions on /dev/dsp get whacked back to owned by
> root, with only root having write permission. Is this meant to
> happen?
It is PAM doing this. See /etc/security/console.perms and man
pam_console. Essentially, PAM assigns groups of devices to whoever is
currently logged in. Multiple logins on the same machine seem to cause
problems. I find this happens even if you login as $USER twice, and
then logout from one of them. The device goes back to the default
user, normally root.
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Hal B
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