Am 30.06.2012 00:31, schrieb Bill Davidsen: > Robert Arkiletian wrote: >> 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. >> > Security. If it can't be used it can't be misused in the context of sound this is nonsense if i play music there is no dmaned reason that it stops playing after switch with CTRL+ALT+F2 it is a poor development not having a simple option for systemdwide sound these days
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