Re: tlug: Permissions on /dev/audio, et al

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> These are all 0660 in the Debian distribution, but that means that my
> non-root user can't get at it (eg in MIME mail and so on).  I'd like
> to use NAS, but then the CD playing utilities and the like get shut
> out.
> 
> Any suggestions?  In particular, is there any reason why I shouldn't
> use 0666 on a single-user workstation?

I don't see any reason why letting people access /dev/dsp, /dev/audio
creates a security risk at all... actually you only need write access.
TurboLinux creates /dev/audio as:

crw-rw--w-	1 root	sys	14,	4 Apr 26	1995	/dev/audio

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
               <sstone@example.com>
Linux Developer/Systems Administrator for Pacific HiTech, Inc. 
http://www.pht.com		http://armadillo.pht.co.jp
http://www.pht.co.jp	        http://www.turbolinux.com


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