On Thu, 26.11.09 14:31, Colin Guthrie (gmane at colin.guthr.ie) wrote: > > 'Twas brillig, and Markus Rechberger at 26/11/09 08:51 did gyre and gimble: > >Hi, > > > >I've been working quite a while with pulseaudio, one thing that breaks > >alsa compatibility is that since PA is user based root is not allowed > >to access audio. > >This always worked with native Alsa even if root is not in the audio group. > > > >I'm not sure if this behaviour is intended to be like that or if it > >can be considered as an implementation bug... > > If becoming root under an X11 session, try "su" rather than "su -" > when becoming root (or sudo -s vs. sudo -i). If you can access the X > root window then the x11 properties will be readable by the root > user and the PULSE_SERVER and PULSE_COOKIE variables will be all the > root user (well libpulse really) will need to be able to access the > user's PA process. I don't see why anyone would want to have audio when changing to root for admin purposes. Playing music certainly does not fall under "admin purposes". Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
