first of all you add your user to the audio group ;you can either do that at the time you add users with the adduser command or edit/etc/group placing a comma separated list of users at the end of the entry beginning with audio hth -- Shaun Oliver "I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person." email: shaun.oliver at optusnet.com.au WEB: http://blindman.homelinux.org/~blindman/ IRC: irc.awesomechat.net:6666 IRCNICK: blindman