Sound not accessible to non root users anymore

[Tomas Mraz]

On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 11:44 +0000, Boyan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Recently after upgrade in rawhide (2-3 days ago) I'm not able to use 
> correctly any program using sound. The reason is that the ownership and 
>   mode for /dev files are not like before. I think before they was like 
> this:
> 
> crw------- 1 MY_USER root
> 
> Now they are:
> 
> crw-rw---- 1 root root
> 
> Excluding /dev/dsp which now is:
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root root
> 
> but everything now uses alsa and the files in /dev/snd/* can not be 
> opened by users.
> 
> Anybody know what changed and how to reconfigure it back?
HAL daemon must be running.

The access is now granted by HAL daemon setting ACLs on the device
nodes. 'getfacl /dev/snd/controlC0' should show whether they are
properly assigned.

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Tomas Mraz
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