Re: How to restrict (audio) device permissions to a group?

[Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios%cs.uni-bonn.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 06:53:45PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 09:15:58AM +0100, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 01:16:07AM +0530, Mayuresh wrote:
> > > While trying to get audio work on NetBSD I realize the audio device is
> > > writable to all.
> > > 
> > > Can the use of audio device be restricted to a group of users only?
> > > (I am not really looking for who-ever-logs-in-at-desktop-gets-permissions
> > > stuff. Just looking for statically defined perbmissions using group
> > > membership.)
> > 
> > By normal file permissions, applied to the audio devices. In case you have
> > only one audio device:
> > 
> > chmod o-rwx /dev/audio0 /dev/audioctl0 /dev/sound0 
> > chmod g+rwx /dev/audio0 /dev/audioctl0 /dev/sound0 
> 
> Where to put such commands so that this happens on every boot?

You only need them *once*.

        -is