[wplug] ESD does not work for normal users

[T Quine]

Sounds like you've got a permissions problem with your sound card.  Either 
put the user in a group that can access the /dev/dsp, or just give anyone 
the ability to throw bits at it.  I'm pretty sure that there are pam modules 
that'll change the permission on devices as you log in, that is another 
solution.  My login does something similar.

I don't think that esd is supposed to use the tcp port configuration by 
default, and I doubt it pays attention to your hosts.allow file (I could be 
wrong there).  Normally, it uses a unix socket, rather than tcp, which means 
one less port open on your computer.


>From: Brandon Guy <beg14+ at pitt.edu>
>Reply-To: wplug at wplug.org
>To: wplug at wplug.org
>Subject: [wplug] ESD does not work for normal users
>Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 22:23:16 -0400
>MIME-Version: 1.0
>if I start esd as root or a normal user, root can succsesfully use esd
>and normal users fail to use it(/dev/dsp: resource unavailable --
>permissions are set correctly)  Any ideas what is wrong?
>
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