odd permissions issue re. audio

[dep]

okay. here's the story in screendump form:

dep@depoffice:~/download$ cat sample.au >/dev/audio
bash: /dev/audio: Permission denied
dep@depoffice:~/download$ ls -l /dev/audio
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 4 2007-07-31 20:52 /dev/audio
dep@depoffice:~/download$ su
Password:
root@depoffice:/home/dep/download# cat sample.au >/dev/audio
root@depoffice:/home/dep/download#

as root, the file played just fine. so. i joined the group "audio":

dep@depoffice:~/download$ cat sample.au >/dev/audio
bash: /dev/audio: Permission denied
dep@depoffice:~/download$

and:

dep@depoffice:~$ ls -l /dev/audio
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 4 2007-07-31 20:52 /dev/audio

so. i've misconfigured something here, or something. works as root, doesn't work as notroot.

anybody know a clean fix?

thanks.

[Snowhog]

Re: odd permissions issue re. audio

The quick answer is that a user must belong to the secondary group 'audio'

Open K Menu | System Settings | User Management

Click the Administrator Mode button. Highlight your user account name and click the Modify button. In Secondary Groups make sure that audio is present. If it isn't, click the Select button and highlight audio on the left click the Add button.

[dep]

Re: odd permissions issue re. audio

right. did that, as noted. same result, also as noted.

weird.

[Snowhog]

Re: odd permissions issue re. audio

Hmmm. Tested it on my system - worked fine - using your example (my audio file of course )

What does groups show for your account?

groups

[dep]

Re: odd permissions issue re. audio

dep, users, audio

[Snowhog]

Re: odd permissions issue re. audio

Hmm. That's an awfully small groups list. I don't see any administrative groups. These are the groups my account belongs to:

paul adm dialout cdrom floppy audio dip video plugdev scanner netdev lpadmin powerdev admin