kwhiskerz wrote: > Since the last spate of updates, it is no longer possible to use any > sound or video* device as user, only as root. Changing the > permission to 666 allows users to use the devices. I saw that on the > pulseaudio thread on fedora-selinux-list. > > I hope there will be a fix soon. In the meantime, I manually change > the permission of the device I need to use each time I boot the > system. Sometimes it's not easy to figure out what device you need, > though, like with the tv card or midi, for example. It's probably worth mentioning that the permissions for sound and video devices are now managed by ConsoleKit instead of the older consolehelper. ConsoleKit uses acl's instead of mucking with the standard unix perms. So you want to check the acl's of your devices using the getfacl command. As an example, you should see something like this for /dev/dsp: $ getfacl /dev/dsp getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names # file: dev/dsp # owner: root # group: root user::rw- user:gdm:rw- user:tmz:rw- group::rw- mask::rw- other::--- Additionally, the ck-list-sessions command is very useful to determine whether ConsoleKit considers your session to the active session. If it doesn't, it won't add you to the acl list for sound, video, and other devices that it manages. Finally, one bug that could be the cause of this is: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=380031 Another possibility, if you're using updates-testing, is the pilot-link-0.12.2-9 update (as suggested in bz#411321). -- Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them. -- Jane Austen
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