Dear Maintainer, The file </usr/share/doc/beep/PERMISSIONS.md.gz> says (among other things): Add users to `beep` group ========================= The suggested way to regulate permissions to the speaker device is to have the system administrator add all users who should be able to run beep to the `beep` group. To add user `jane` to the `beep` group, the system administrator has to run a command like # usermod jane -a -G beep However, the package does not create this group. If the user should create the group, it should be documented; if the package install should create the group, then something is not working, because I don't have that group after having installed 'beep'. Have a lovely day! Alex