Description: The program "beep" (from the package "beep") does not
work for an ordinary user due to a permissions problem. It works
fine for root (i.e., it produces a "beep" sound).


Additional info:
* package version(s) beep 1.3-2
* config and/or log files etc.


Steps to reproduce: Install the beep package and type "beep" at
the command line. Fails for ordinary user (i.e., no sound and
an error message about not being able to write to /dev/tty0 or
/dev/vc/0). Examination of the /dev directory verifies the
reported state of these permissions. This situation has been
going on for some time (sorry, can't be more specific than that).

Note that this problem is reported in the beep man page. The
proposed solution of the upstream author is to set beep to
SUID root. I have verified that this works.

There is an obvious security issue here, which the upstream
author also addresses in the man page.