On Fri, Dec 30, 2022, at 8:13 AM, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > I'd appreciate any suggestions of a workaround for this situation. > Works fine without the "sudo". It also fails when run in ~root > > sudo mpg123 t.mp3 I think that is considered a feature and not a bug, but thinking about what is happening I realized that the below would work, since root hands the `cat` output back to the user... 8:42-doug@wombat-~/sound>sudo chown root:root laser.mp3 8:42-doug@wombat-~/sound>sudo cat laser.mp3 | mpg123 - High Performance MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 Audio Player for Layers 1, 2 and 3 version 1.31.1; written and copyright by Michael Hipp and others free software (LGPL) without any warranty but with best wishes Terminal control enabled, press 'h' for listing of keys and functions. Playing MPEG stream 1 of 1: - ... MPEG 2.0 L III cbr32 22050 mono [0:10] Decoding of - finished. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue