On May 20, 2021 11:42:23 AM GMT+02:00, Dr Rainer Woitok <rainer.woi...@gmail.com> wrote: >Aisha, > >On Wednesday, 2021-05-19 19:14:27 -0400, you wrote: > >> ... >> Are you running your machine day-to-day as root? >> That sounds like a recipe for disaster... > >Of course not. But if that quote [1] had any substance in it, it COULD >happen that some deamon running as user "root" failed because of "root" >not being in the correct groups. > >> That preaching aside, I do have audio working as a normal user and my groups >> are - >> >> $ groups aisha >> wheel video portage lxc lxd aisha >> $ groups root >> root bin daemon sys adm disk wheel floppy tape video lxc lxd > >So neither your own id nor "root" is a member of group "audio" and audio >is working nevertheless. Hum, that just triggers the next question to >all Gentooers: What the heck is group "audio" good for? > >> ... >> > [1] >> > https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=3640443#post3640443 > >Sincerely, > Rainer >
Here's a good explanation: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/TheAudioGroup -- Hund
