AddUser = No Sound?

carlosinfl · 05-08-2006, 04:34 PM

When I installed Debian (Etch) last week, I was prompted to enter info for my one shell user account which went fine. Then when I booted in Gnome, I had everything including sound. I recently added my girlfriend to the machine using the "useradd" command. This then asked for basic info the "useradd" command wants. When all was said & done, I logged in her account just to test it and I noticed the sound icon was muted so I tried to enable this and I received an error which indicated it could not located my onboard sound card which I found strange because under my regular user account, I am able to see the Nvidia sound card with no problem.

Why does my one user account not have access to audio when my other one does? I don't know if I was issued some type of special permission to the device since its the one account I created from the install and the the one in question was a post install account.

Any suggestions?

pljvaldez · 05-08-2006, 04:52 PM

Try looking under Desktop --> Administration --> users and Groups to see if she is part of the audio (or similar) group. Compare the groups your user is part of to the groups her login is part of. That's my best guess...

carlosinfl · 05-08-2006, 06:25 PM

This makes sense...

Code:

nucleus:/home/cwilliams# su laura
laura@nucleus:/home/cwilliams$ groups
laura
laura@nucleus:/home/cwilliams$ su cwilliams
Password:
cwilliams@nucleus:~$ groups
cwilliams dialout cdrom floppy audio video plugdev

Would I just issued the "groupadd laura <missing groups>" command?

pljvaldez · 05-08-2006, 06:56 PM

I believe it is useradd -G group1,group2,group3 username, but I could be mistaken (I get lazy and use the graphical tool a lot).

nx5000 · 05-09-2006, 03:29 AM

Normal behaviour, only the first user is added to the group audio.

Modify laura's group membership:

Code:

adduser laura audio