sound for nis user
Erik Bågfors
zindar at gmail.com
Thu Jan 13 12:27:55 UTC 2005
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
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