On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Chuck Anderson <cra@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> That's ConsoleKit deactivating the streams on the non-active console. >> This is so mult-user-switching can work and each user can have their >> own audio. > > Technically.. is it PolicyKit or ConsoleKit doing the deactivation? > I always get confused as to which one of those is doing what. Neither actually - pulseaudio is listening to ConsoleKit events and giving up the stream itself. > Regardless, PolicyKit's authorization mechanisms both on the cmdline > and the gui should be usable to change how access control for the > streams work to widen the access scope to sound devices to any user at > the console and not just the active console..or even wider if desired. This is a bit of a grey area between "system configuration" and "security", but I'd suggest that if someone needs the ability to change the behavior, that should be a change to pulseaudio and not try to express it in policykit. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
