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List:       kde-linux
Subject:    Re: [kde-linux] How to prevent audio device change owner after normal
From:       James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj () acm ! org>
Date:       2005-02-28 19:48:37
Message-ID: 42237595.2050509 () acm ! org
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Rocky Zhang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a computer running with SuSe 9.1, KDE desktop. And I connected 2
> USB audio headsets to my computer. I found that before user log in, the
> audio devices (such as /dev/dsp*, /dev/snd/*) owner is root:audio,
> permission is 660; After one user log in, all the audio device files
> change owner to $USER:audio, permission change to 600, so another users
> can't have permission to use the USB headset.  How can I prevent it
> ( keep audio device owner always root, and permission is 660)?

> I know in Gnome, it's a configuration file ( /etc/security/console.perm)
> that you can edit to prevent normal session login change audio device
> owner. Is there a similar file in KDE? Where is it?

This isn't GNOME or KDE, it is PAM (a system level configuration).

You make the same change for either one:

<console>  0660 <sound>      0660 root.audio

Users that are allowed to use audio must be members of the group: "audio".

-- 
JRT
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