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

On Monday, June 22nd, 2026 at 2:54 PM, Tomoaki AOKI <junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp> wrote:

> On Mon, 22 Jun 2026 06:23:36 +0000
> polyduekes@proton.me 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.
> 
> 
> --
> Tomoaki AOKI    <junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp>
> 
sorry i forgot to clarify properly,i didn't anticipate a failed merge of /etc/group by pkg during upgrade, i had checked the available groups after upgrade but audio group wasn't available due to the failed merge(at that point i wasn't aware the merge failed) so i assumed it wasn't the problem

thanks for the reminder about UPDATING entries,they slipped my mind