Who sets /dev/snd/* owners/perms upon login?

Tomasz Torcz tomek at crocom.com.pl
Tue Mar 11 11:50:16 UTC 2008


Dnia 10-03-2008, pon o godzinie 23:25 -0300, Juan Carlos Castro y Castro
pisze:

> OK, now it got weird. I see the permissions in /dev/snd don't actually 
> change - they're permanently at 0660, owner root:root - and yet I can 
> play sound from a ssh session as a common user. But not from a VNC server.

 Permissions do not change. ACLs do.
ACLs are in unix world since 1995 or longer. ACL are available in linux
since about 2001. People should get used to them already.

-- 
Tomasz Torcz




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