On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 01:03, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 16:03:28 -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote: > > > I have a shell script that records from line in. > > I call shell script from cron. > > > > When I am logged in at console - it works. > > PAM does its thing. > > > > When I am not logged in - permission denied. > > > > In other distributions, this is easily solved by putting the user into > > the audio group, and /dev/dsp has 660 permissions. > > This is not good, since users in the audio group can steal access to > the devices. There should be only one user who owns the audio devices > at a time, and with precedence that is the one with physical access > to the computer. OK - maybe it is not good for a default, but should Fedora undo what the root user has chosen to do? I'm not worried about other users "stealing access" to the audio devices, I do however wish to record without having to be logged in or run the script as root (which is probably worse than a 660 /dev/dsp) > > > I tried doing a similar thing with fedora. > > Unfortunately Fedora thinks it is smarter than me, and resets the > > permissions when I reboot. > > You can customize /etc/security/console.perms to change that > behaviour and assign a different chmod/chown/chgrp. I'll try that and see if it works.
