Re: 16-CURRENT non root users unable to use sound/beep anymore after upgrade to a4ed783cee2a

Tomoaki AOKI <[email protected]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:24:07 +0900

Newsgroups	gmane.os.freebsd.devel.hackers,gmane.os.freebsd.current
Organization	Junchoon corps
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Mon, 22 Jun 2026 06:23:36 +0000
[email protected] wrote:

> has something been recently changed in regards to user permissions for /dev/dsp,i updated my 16-current system after some days and am noticing that now a non root user which was able to access /dev/dsp and play sound is now unable to do so and fails with Failed to open '/dev/dsp': Permission denied

You'll need to add the user who need to access audio devices
to recently added audio group (gid=43) just like you'll be doing
for X11/Wayland screens for video (gid=44) group.

IIRC, audio group is added to stable/15, too, but switches for
audio device to audio group is NOT merged not to violate POLA.

This is described in /usr/src/UPDATING at the entry dated 20260521.
  https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/tree/UPDATING#n42

Please habitally confirm UPDATING. I believe it should be
a good habit.

Regards.


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Tomoaki AOKI    <[email protected]>