I should have filed this a year ago when I noticed it - sorry... In my household, my FC3 box has two users: my wife and I. We each have our own desktop, and we both like to be logged in all day for the most part. We do this, of course, by setting up gdm.conf to crank up two X servers in two vt's: edit /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf and make sure under [servers] it reads 0=Standard 1=Standard Restart X The problem: the first person to log in gains permission to use the sound devices, the other does not have permission. My workaround: we (our users) are in the same group (tandm in this case). I edited /etc/security/console.perms and changed the <sound> console permissions to be... <console> 0660 <sound> 0600 root.tandm instead of the old <console> 0660 <sound> 0600 root.root Restarted things and bingo... sound in both. I there must be some default that works well for each.
"I there must be some default that works well for each." ...should have been... "I think there must be some default that works well for each."
I'm sorry but the default won't be changed. Your solution is correct and exactly what has to be done to support such configuration as yours. However it would be of no use on normal one-user-in-time desktops.