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   title="RESOLVED FIXED - Permission denied for regular user not in group "audio" to access /dev/snd/seq"
   href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66861">bug 66861</a>
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   title="RESOLVED FIXED - Permission denied for regular user not in group "audio" to access /dev/snd/seq"
   href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66861#c12">Comment # 12</a>
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   title="RESOLVED FIXED - Permission denied for regular user not in group "audio" to access /dev/snd/seq"
   href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66861">bug 66861</a>
              from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:kay@vrfy.org" title="Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>"> <span class="fn">Kay Sievers</span></a>
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        <pre>(In reply to <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=66861#c11">comment #11</a>)
<span class="quote">> I don't know if it is due to the "static_node" stuff or if the kernel really
> does create /dev/snd/seq even before the snd_seq kernel module is loaded,</span >

Right, it's udev, not the kernel. And things work as expected. It's just
unfortunate, that it does not work for ordinary users who log in. All other
use cases for on-demand module-loading are covered, needed, and will work
fine.

<span class="quote">> instead of:

> "/dev/snd/seq: Permission denied"</span >

Hmm, that's pretty actionable, isn't it?

It tells you that you don't have the permission to open the node. Just
throwing a 'sudo' in front, which gets the permissions, would have made
everything work.

Btw, future versions of systemd will also handle logged-in users ACLs:
 
<a href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=6b78df0a6ec75f25705a0f78ef895b95ab75a7ea">http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=6b78df0a6ec75f25705a0f78ef895b95ab75a7ea</a>

Thanks!</pre>
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