Description of Problem: I was very shocked when I installed Red Hat today; /dev/audio, dsp, mixer etc. were all 500.root, while I, and most other distributions would use something like root.audio, etc. I think slackware uses a less fine-grained system, with only one group, 'sys', for audio, modem etc. I guess the installation you have checkboxes like [v] Allow to play audio [v] Allow to use modem/serial line [v] Allow to mount CDROM etc., most checked by default. Steps to Reproduce: install rh, ls -al /dev/ Actual Results: 500.root on /dev/audio etc Expected Results: root.audio
I don't think that anaconda creates this file. Changing component to the dev package since that's what 'rpm -qf /dev/audio' says creates this file.
This is indeed an annoying part. I "fix" this myself after install, but it would however be nicer if the installer would do it automatically.
We use pam_console for this. We don't use groups.