[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Introduction and Patch Approval Process

[Greg Wooledge <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Per I. Mathisen (Per.Inge.Mathisen@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:

> +A: Most likely, your dsp device only allows root to write to it. To
> +change this, find the real dsp device (/dev/dsp is usually a symlink)

It's usually a real character device, at least on the systems I'm
familiar with.

> +and type "chmod o=rw /dev/dsp0", where /dev/dsp0 is your real dsp
> +device. You must do this as root, of course.

A somewhat more secure approach is to create an audio group (Debian
uses one by default), make sure the sound device is owned and writable
by this group, and then add appropriate users to that group.

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