On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 12:22 PM, David A. De Graaf <dad@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Does anyone know how to allow root and users other than me to use the > sound system? > > Ever since pulseaudio was introduced in Fedora 8 and Mr. Lennart > Poettering inflicted his peculiar ideas of security on us, the default > installation hasn't worked properly, despite many BZ's and copious > complaints! Specifically, pulseaudio invents the "seat" and only the > one person in the "seat" can use the sound system. This precludes > having root, or anyone else, from generating sounds - presumably it's a > security risk. Bosh! Yup. Ran into this problem trying to make an alarm clock with atd or crond. Can't have sound unless you are logged in. I had to totally remove PA and just use alsa. But I know that's not possible any more. Now we have systemd too. Joy. -- Robert Arkiletian -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
