sound for nis user

[Erik Bågfors]

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 12:21:00 +0100, Johannes Behr
<johannes.behr at igd.fhg.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I use ubuntu in a network enviroment
> which manages unix-accounts over nis.
> 
> As oldtime debian user I had no problem
> to install and configure nis/autofs
> but I just can't get the sound
> working for nis-users since /dev/mixer
> and /dev/dsp is only writeable for
> users which are part of the local
> audio group:
> 
> crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,   0 2005-01-13 11:19 mixer
> crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,   3 2005-01-13 11:19 dsp
> 
> AFAIK there are to ways to fix this
> problem:
> 
> - add nis user to group:
> 
>   I have no idea how to add a network/nis user
>   to a local group. With adduser and the gnome tools
>   a can only add local user to local groups.
>   Is there another way?
> 
> - chmod /dev/mixer and /dev/dsp to crw-rw-rw-.
> 
>   I can do it but after I reboot the machine
>   udev just sets the permissions again to crw-rw----.
> 
> Is there a known solution to this problem?

check out /etc/udev/permissions.d

/Erik