[SATLUG] Fedora 7 - Device Permissions Problems

[Sean Carolan]

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> In one of the files, you should have something like the entries
> below.  I know you don't, but you need something like this to manage the
> devices properly with groups.
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> I'm not directly familiar with Fedora, but having all the sound devices
> as root:root seems pretty lame.  Are the floppy, cdrom/dvd, and loopback
> devices all root:root too?


The /etc/udev/ settings appear to be broken, because even when I tried to
edit those files to make everything sound-related to chmod 666, it kept
reverting back to 660 and owned by root:root.  I agree, it is lame.  In the
end I just dropped a few lines into /etc/rc.local to chmod 666 those nodes
and be done with it.  This is my home system - I don't want to spend hours
troubleshooting this box that has one user.

Thanks for your help, I can see that Fedora 7 is still a bit half-baked in
some areas, and will probably recommend Ubuntu for home use from now on.