On 05 Oct 2002 14:17:32 +0200, Olafur Sigurgeirsson wrote: > I am currently compiling garnome (Gnome2) as user "B". > I login as user "A" to do other work while waiting and notice that I > can not access /dev/audio | mixer | dsp. When I check I see that those > devices are now owned by user "B". I have noticed this behavior before > in RedHat 7.x and would love to know why this happens, a simple > compile job should mess with ownership of devices ?
man console.perms The work-around is to log in as user "A" first and then su to user "B". The first user which logs in sort of owns the physical console and several devices. --
