On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 00:27:35 -0600, Nathan <frizop@charter.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 06:23:20 +0000, Simon wrote:
>> On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 23:48:24 -0600, Nathan <frizop@charter.net> wrote:
>>> when I try and play it as a normal user, the video plays just fine. but
>>> the audio is waxed.
>>
>> Does your user have permission to read from and write to the audio
>> device (usually /dev/dsp)? If not, try adding them to the 'sys' group.
>
> brilliant! that was exactally the problem. Does having a user in the 'sys'
> group caus any sort of security risks?

As far as I'm aware, no harm has ever come of it ('sys' doesn't have
access to much more than the audio devices, so it's not a huge security
risk). If you really want to, you can chgrp the audio devices to a
group called 'audio' or something similar (after creating it) and add
any users allowed to play sounds to that group.


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