xmms permissions issue

irony · Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2003 8:57 pm Post subject: xmms permissions issue

I've setup alsa and xmms, and they work as root, but not as any other user. The problem seems to be an inability for xmms to write to /tmp. The exact error I get is:

staked · n00b Joined: 25 Jan 2003 Posts: 15

Have you added your regular user to the audio group?

irony · Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2003 9:47 pm Post subject:

yes, the user is part of the audio group.
Alsa works on its own as the regular user - aplay will play .wav files.
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irony · Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2003 6:22 am Post subject:

Permissions on /tmp were:

ElzWhere · n00b Joined: 13 Oct 2002 Posts: 26 Location: Seattle

I had the same problem with starting xmms with the permissions set to the users on the /tmp dir. I did as well add the user to the audio group but still no success.

My solution to the problem was to just chown the user to the /tmp dir. Assuming that this is just for you benifit no one elz'z you shouldnt have to worry about anyone tampering with your /tmp file that you do not know about.

irony · Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2003 12:17 pm Post subject:

Yea, that was the other solution, but I was worried that other programs might assume that root was the owner, and it might cause problems that way.

There should be a more elegant solution, but hey, whatever works.
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nitro322 · Guru Joined: 24 Jul 2002 Posts: 594 Location: USA

For what it's worth, the /tmp permissions on my Gentoo system and another Debian system that I have access to are both 'drwxrwxrwt'. I'm pretty sure this is the default case for both OSes, so I don't think there should be any problem leaving it world writable.