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On May 20, 2021 11:42:23 AM GMT+02:00, Dr Rainer Woitok <rainer.woitok@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>Aisha, |
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>On Wednesday, 2021-05-19 19:14:27 -0400, you wrote: |
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>> ... |
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>> Are you running your machine day-to-day as root? |
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>> That sounds like a recipe for disaster... |
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>Of course not. But if that quote [1] had any substance in it, it COULD |
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>happen that some deamon running as user "root" failed because of "root" |
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>not being in the correct groups. |
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>> That preaching aside, I do have audio working as a normal user and my groups are - |
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>> $ groups aisha |
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>> wheel video portage lxc lxd aisha |
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>> $ groups root |
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>> root bin daemon sys adm disk wheel floppy tape video lxc lxd |
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>So neither your own id nor "root" is a member of group "audio" and audio |
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>is working nevertheless. Hum, that just triggers the next question to |
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>all Gentooers: What the heck is group "audio" good for? |
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>> ... |
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>> > [1] https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=3640443#post3640443 |
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>Sincerely, |
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> Rainer |
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Here's a good explanation: |
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https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/TheAudioGroup |
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