Upon system boot, the permissons for /dev/sound/* are set to root:audio 600. The permissions are re-set to root:audio each time X is started, or re-started. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Reboot or start X. 2. 3. Actual Results: The permissions for /dev/sound/* were changed from whatever they had been to root:audio 600. Expected Results: The permissons for /dev/sound/* should have been set at root:audio 660. I have tracked down the problem to an incorrectly configured console.perms file, and am submitting a patch that resolves this issue.
Created attachment 41035 [details, diff] Patch to /etc/security/console.perms
I could be wrong but I believe this to be a duplicate (or far relative ;p) of http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55305 . I've been tracking this bug forever because it's a real pain in my @$$.
This bug and the one you linked to: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55305 seem to be the same problem. Has anyone else had success with the patch attached to this report?
Actually I just noticed that patch hit pam(ver here)-r2 which is ~x86. So time to test eh? :)
Pam 0.77-r1 still contains the broken console.perms.
Its been over a month since this bug was originally posted. Has this bug been acknowledged by the gentoo dev's? Been fixed? Anything?
Please address this bug! I manage a bunch of desktop systems and this one is a recurring pain in the butt!
Yeah, I removed PAM from my USE due to this bug and now I can't su :/
PORBLEM Actually, this exact problem was reported as far back as April 10, 2002, bug #1658. BUT Since this is a community distribution; and according to Bug #28407 comment #36 gentoo's pam man is only reviewing+testing instead of writing fixes himself, I think you're supposed to fix it yourself and attach patches here! Just describing it is not enough! Everithing else is getting nowhere, even if it's security related and the proposed solution couldn't be more clear. Since the way pam is currently going on gentoo will cause more trouble than it solves, I myself have given up all hope a long time ago. SEE ALSO Bug #1658 Bug #27857 Bug #29463 Bug #46524 Bug #59085 Bug #73660
Should be fixed in pam-0.78.