Sound driver rights?

[Kooldino]

So on my debian box, if anyone but the primary user (myself) logs in, they get a popup error in KDE about not having access to the sound card or its drivers. So basically they get no sound. Anyone ever hear of this?

[Wulfman]

add the user to the group "audio".

[edit] thought the group was called sound, actually it should be audio. I think. guess you will have to check it out.

mfg
wulfman

[Kooldino]

Done. I'll test it out shortly, thanks.

[Kooldino]

That did it! Thanks.

[Wulfman]

np. if every problem was as easy to solve...

mfg
wulfman

[leech]

:-) I knew the answer to this one, but Wulfman beat me to it. Though I wish through the various means of creating new users, they'd all be the same. Some will add the user to the proper groups (like audio or cdrom) but of course that can be a bad thing too.... Though I think it'd be nice to be able to set up a 'desktop' mode so that if you added a new user it'd be automatically added to the groups that a desktop user would need. And a 'server' setting, so that everything was locked out that wasn't absolutely necessary.

Leech

[Ribbit]

There are PAM modules (pam_group and pam_console) which can add users to groups depending on where they are logged in (and other factors, like time of login). Unfortunately pam_group at least didn't work last time I tried it

[leech]

Speaking of PAM... it brings back nightmares... there was a time when the pam packages were messed up big time, and I couldn't even log into my linux box... OUCH.

I figured there would be a way, I just wasn't sure about it.

Leech

[Kooldino]

Cliff notes on the basics on how PAM works?

[Ribbit]

There's something of an FAQ here, and you can read the first couple of sections of the system administrator's guide. Let us know if you're still confused/have questions.

[Kooldino]

Ok, I think I get it. So when newer programs require certain access, they just call "PAM Module" which can point to basically anything to verify the user.