Peter Horst wrote: > I am trying to set up a headless FC5 system such that I have full use of > /dev/mixer, /dev/cdrom, etc., when I login via SSH. Mikkel Ellertson & > others were kind enough to provide some clues in an earlier series of > emails, which I unfortunately did not save. > > I tried changing the 'perm' setting in > /etc/security/console.perms.d/50-default.perms for the <sound> group, > but it had no effect - is it the case that this setting changes only the > permissions that are assigned to a user who is concurrently logged in on > the console? I may have misunderstood. > > Any help getting sound up and running on this headless machine as a > regular user would be greatly appreciated. > > Peter > I think what I would do is remove or comment out the <console> 0600 <sound> 0600 root line from /etc/security/console.perms.d/50-default.perms. I would then copy the device list from the audio devices section of /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules and create my own file as something like 52-sound.rules with lines like: KERNEL=="audio*", GROUP="audio" or what ever group you want to be able to access the audio devices. By removing the <sound> line from console.perms control, the permissions set by udev will prevail. By adding another rule file for udev, instead of editing 50-udev.rules, your changes should survive a udev update. You may still run into problems with a console.perms update... Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
