VNC cannot access sound card without local login on Linux

[Mike Fedyk]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 03:10:54PM -0500, William Hooper wrote:
> Mike Fedyk  said:
> > 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.
> 
> A valid point (because it doesn't look like console.perms changes the
> group).  Not a good idea in this case without changing the group, because
> IIRC /dev/dsp is root.root by default.
> 
> Anyway, this is getting even further OT.

Yeah, I was going to get into creating a group and everything, but it's
already done for me on debian, and I don't know what the others do...