On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 14:30, Robert P. Goldman wrote: > > I was wondering if any of you know the internals of how the devices > are modified on login. I'm particularly interested in sound devices. > > Seems like when I log in, if I login at the console, the sound devices > are somehow rewritten. So right now I see this: > > [goldman at mn65-zippy ~]$ ls -l /dev/audio /dev/dsp > crw------- 1 goldman root 14, 4 Mar 23 2001 /dev/audio > crw------- 1 goldman root 14, 3 Mar 23 2001 /dev/dsp I believe the culprit is actually PAM. On a (pretty old) Mandrake box I have at work, this stuff is controlled by the values in the /etc/security/console.perms file. You can probably just comment out anything that has `audio' or `dsp' in it. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ Why are there 5 syllables / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ in the word `monosyllabic'? \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020520/6984eb2a/attachment.pgp