Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Runs as root but not as user

[Anne Wilson <cannewilson tiscali co uk>]

On Sunday 14 Sep 2003 10:33 am, Kilian Krause wrote:
> Hi Anne,
>
> > Hi, Killian.  One of the problem I've had is getting settings to
> > stick.
>
> that's the alsa-state when loading/unload the drivers and should be
> taken care of by your /etc/init.d/alsa script..
>
I've only just learned about /lib/dev-state <g>  What do I need to 
know/do about this?  (This is Mandrake, and msec reverts settings 
unless they have been set up somewhere as new defaults.)

> > However, this is the state of play atm:
> >
> > [root anne-linux anne]# ls -l /dev/mixer*
> > lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     video          11 Sep 13 06:39
> > /dev/mixer -> sound/mixer
> > [root anne-linux anne]# ls -l /dev/video*
> > lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root           10 Sep 13 06:38
> > /dev/video -> v4l/video0
> > lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root           10 Sep 13 06:38
> > /dev/video0 -> v4l/video0
> > [root anne-linux anne]# chgrp video /dev/video*
> > [root anne-linux anne]# ls -l /dev/video*
> > lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     video          10 Sep 13 06:38
> > /dev/video -> v4l/video0
> > lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     video          10 Sep 13 06:38
> > /dev/video0 -> v4l/video0
> > [root anne-linux anne]#
> >
> > The /dev/mixer* was root.root, so I changed it when I read your
> > message.  Still getting the error, though.
>
> Ehrm, you're mocking me, right? ALL of those above device symlinks
> miss the write flag. How about you try and chmod 660 all of them?
> They should read:
> lrw-rw---- ...
> and
> crw-rw---- ..
>
Not only am I not mocking you, I am thoroughly confused.  Look at 
this:

[root anne-linux anne]# chmod 660 /dev/mixer*
[root anne-linux anne]# ls -l /dev/mixer*
lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     video          11 Sep 13 06:39 /dev/mixer -> 
sound/mixer

What am I doing wrong?

What's more, if I view permissions of /dev/mixer in Konqueror I see 
anne.audio, both with rw- permissions.  I have to be misunderstanding 
something here.

> Moreover your permissions in /dev/sound/* and /dev/video/* are
> missing in the above listing. (the symlinks gotta have +w too
> anyway)

[root anne-linux dev]# ls -l /dev/sound
total 0
crw-------    1 anne     audio     14,  14 Jan  1  1970 admmidi
crw-------    1 anne     audio     14,  12 Jan  1  1970 adsp
crw-------    1 anne     audio     14,  13 Jan  1  1970 amidi
crw-------    1 anne     audio     14,   4 Jan  1  1970 audio
crw-------    1 anne     audio     14,   9 Jan  1  1970 dmmidi
crw-------    1 anne     audio     14,   3 Jan  1  1970 dsp
crw-------    1 anne     audio     14,   2 Jan  1  1970 midi
crw-rw----    1 anne     audio     14,   0 Jan  1  1970 mixer
crw-------    1 anne     audio     14,   1 Jan  1  1970 sequencer
crw-------    1 anne     audio     14,   8 Jan  1  1970 sequencer2

Do all these need the group rw- ?

Anne
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