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Old 02-19-2008, 07:00 AM
AthlonRob
 
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Default Re: Mozilla 1.5 - flash video/audio only working as root.

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On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 00:27:35 -0600, Nathan <frizop@charter.net> wrote:
> brilliant! that was exactally the problem. Does having a user in the 'sys'
> group caus any sort of security risks?


Only if you don't trust your users. See what all sys has access to
under /dev and decide if that's acceptable for you or not.

If it isn't, maybe change the permissions on /dev/dsp to be owned by
some other group (like maybe 'users') or 666 it and remove the users
from the sys group.

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