Needs help with user rights management.

FINITE · Guru Joined: 10 May 2002 Posts: 449

Ok, so I set my users rights using kuser in KDE. I switch to that user and I cannot use audio as weel as not being able to mount my windows partitions or navigate certain directories. Is there a single command to add rights to be able to use sound and navigate directories. I think that I have the sound part figured out and maybe even partition mounting but no the directories. I even added this user to the root group and still I have problems. Well, thanks for any and all help.

sulu · Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2002 3:30 am Post subject:

Hi finite.

Had some problem with non-root-users myself.

For some services, like audio, the user has to be member of the corresponding group.

You acn attach the user to a group using the KDE-User-Manager but
i found it more convenient to edit the /etc/group file and
add the user at the end of the group i intend to use.

example:
user andi should be member of wheel, audio, cdrom
so add andi to the according entries in /etc/group

wheel::10:root,andi
audio::18:andi
cdrom::19:andi

cya
Sulu

FINITE · Guru Joined: 10 May 2002 Posts: 449

Thanks sulu.

red2 · n00b Joined: 03 Jun 2002 Posts: 57

My user can is in group wheel and audio and strangely enough he can
su to root, yet sound is a no-go.

(Sound works great for root).

Any other suggestions?

thanks

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red2 · n00b Joined: 03 Jun 2002 Posts: 57

Already done that.
groups tells me that the user is in the users, wheel and audio group.

Strangely enough he can su to root, yet audio doesn't work.

Yes, I am confused too. Any helps on figuring out the PAM side of things would be great!. Thanks.

FINITE · Guru Joined: 10 May 2002 Posts: 449

I think that this may be the problem that I am having too. The "pam" side of things that is. My user is in the audio group but cannot use any audio. I also can su. I am in a little bit different situation in that I am using oss for sound and have to run sound-on to start the sound driver and sound-off to stop it. As user I cannot even do this, that I can remember.

CowboyNeal · Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2002 9:12 am Post subject:

I had the same problem. It turns out to be /etc/security/console.perms.
Change vc/[0-9][0-9]* to /dev/vc/[0-9]* in <console>=.

I'm not in the audio group, but when I login local, pam_console will set ownership:

red2 · n00b Joined: 03 Jun 2002 Posts: 57

FINALLY! I figured out my problem.
I catted a .wav file from kde to /dev/dsp (cat file.wav > /dev/dsp) and
I heard crackling when I was logged in as a user!

So I figured it had to be a problem with kde.
I solved it by the following command
rm -f ~/.kde*
and re-logging in. When I came back, I had sound!
One thing down, now I need to just get scsi working,
compact flash mounting, xine to compile (under k6),
...., etc, then I will have the ultimate distro.

Attitude · Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2002 6:04 pm Post subject:

I understand where you are comeing from. I still can not get cd burning to work with any user cept root.