<div>Hi<br>Dejavu<br>In fc8 the tip below worked well.<br>Now I have upgraded to fc10 and have the same problem again, but this time the tip doesn't work.<br>I can manually set permissions and make it work, but I have to do this after each reboot.<br>
Maybe I have forgotten something or else something has changed in the distro wrt permissions and remote login.<br>Please advise<br>/Bengt<br><br>ps for Fernando:</div>
<div>I notice my last mail went to you instead of the list. Sorry about that.<br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">2008/1/21 Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nando@ccrma.stanford.edu">nando@ccrma.stanford.edu</a>></span><br>
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<div class="im">On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 23:44 +0100, Bengt Månsson wrote:<br>> That looked like a good theory but when I checked the files<br>> in /etc/security/console.perms.d/ I find no line with <sound> at all<br>
> (and no line with /dev/snd either).<br>> Should I add some lines manually or is the problem somewhere else?<br><br></div>That's the way permissions are controlled for devices like soundcards,<br>etc, that can/should only be accessible to the person sitting physically<br>
in front of the computer.<br><br>What version of Fedora are you running?<br>What files do you see there are what are their contents?<br><br>This is what I see in Fedora 7:<br><br>----<br><sound>=/dev/dsp* /dev/audio* /dev/midi* \<br>
/dev/mixer* /dev/sequencer* \<br> /dev/sound/* /dev/beep \<br> /dev/snd/* /dev/adsp*<br>----<br><br>----<br>
<div class="im"><console> 0600 <sound> 0600 root<br></div>----<br><font color="#888888"><br>-- Fernando<br></font>
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<div class="h5"><br><br>> 2008/1/18, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <<a href="mailto:nando@ccrma.stanford.edu">nando@ccrma.stanford.edu</a>>:<br>> On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 16:06 -0500, Martin Harriss wrote:<br>> > Bengt Månsson wrote:<br>
> > > Hi<br>> > > I prefer to use VNC to connect remotely to my linux audio<br>> box via LAN<br>> > > After each reboot I cannot see the soundcard in qjackctrl<br>
> via VNC<br>> > > I have to login on a locally attached screen and start<br>> qjackctrl<br>> > > Then I can logout from that screen and everything works<br>> fine again via<br>
> > > VNC (until next reboot)<br>> > > I would like to remove that old screen and always just use<br>> my laptop as<br>> > > display (which is very good)<br>> > > Please advise<br>
> > > /Bengt<br>> > ><br>> ><br>> > This is probably a permissions problem. When you log in at<br>> the console<br>> > the system arranges for the audio devices (amongst other<br>
> things) to be<br>> > owned by the user logging in. When you VNC in this probably<br>> doesn't happen.<br>><br>> That's correct. You would have to make your audio devices<br>
> accessible to<br>> all users, not only to the person physically logged into the<br>> machine.<br>> You can do that by changing this file:<br>><br>> /etc/security/console.perms.d/50- default.perms<br>
><br>> Change this line:<br>> <console> 0600 <sound> 0600 root<br>> to this:<br>> <console> 0600 <sound> 0666 root<br>><br>> this will make the sound devices world readable and writable<br>
> (ie:<br>> anybody logged in will have access).<br>><br>> -- Fernando<br>><br>><br>><br><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br>