VNC cannot access sound card without local login on Linux

[Mike Fedyk]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 01:58:20PM -0500, William Hooper wrote:
> Timothy J. Massey  said:
> > Hello!
> >
> > Thank you very much for your response.   I will investiage
> > console.perms, but I guess I will, rather, have to find a way to give
> > the user those permissions *outside* of console.perms.
> 
> Trust me, you want to change the console.perms defaults or any permissions
> you set will be changed on every reboot.

Just find out what the group is of the sound device (maybe /dev/dsp).  It
might be a group like sound or somesuch.  Now add your user to that group.