On Sun, 2015-04-05 at 13:06 -0400, sean darcy wrote: > I want to have sound when logged in as root. I don't care if it's a good > idea or not. > > And I don't care if it's pulseaudio or alsa, or whatever. > > I've tried pulseaudio -D, but the volume control never can connect to > the daemon. It just spams syslog with: > pulseaudio[6288]: Denied access to client with invalid authentication data. > > I've added system-instance = yes to /etc/pulse/daemon.conf. > > I've read > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/SystemWide/ > . > > I've set up the users and groups as described. > > .esd_auth exists in /var/run/puls > > Does anyone have audio working as root? I am assuming that you mean that you are logging into your window manager as root. But just to cover the other option... I logged am logged into Xfce4 as my regular user and working in an xfce4-termnal window. I can: > sudo tcsh #mpg123 laser.mp3 #aplay dot_matrix_printer.wav Both work fine. So, for me "using sound as root" is working. I don't feel that Xfce or other windowing systems have ever been designed to work with a root login. Yes, I know that people do it, but to me it is sort of like asking "why can't I login as ~nobody if I want to?". It is just *not* setup for it. -- Doug H. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
