Hi, I'm trying to setup system-wide pulseaudio for local-only users. I've read about required pulse-access group but it seems that no checks are performed by pulseaudio-0.9.13 (from FreeBSD ports) for user membership. The server just says: protocol-native.c: Denied access to client with invalid authorization data % paplay sample.wav Connection failure: Access denied % grep pulse-access /etc/group pulse-access:*:564:alex,root The only way I found to make it work is to write in /usr/local/etc/pulse/system.pa: load-module module-native-protocol-unix auth-anonymous=1 The server was tested as: # pulseaudio --log-target=stderr --log-level=4 --daemonize=0 --system=1 Interesting info from the stderr log: W: protocol-native.c: Authentication group configured, but not available on local system. Ignoring. If I change the line in system.pa to load-module module-native-protocol-unix auth-group=pulse-access and start pulseaudio as showed above, it writes: E: module-protocol-stub.c: Failed to parse module arguments E: module.c: Failed to load module "module-native-protocol-unix" (argument: "auth-group=pulse-access"): initialization failed. E: main.c: Module load failed. E: main.c: Failed to initialize daemon. Than I've looked into source files module-protocol-stub.c, protocol-native.c and creds.h. The discovered data are: 1. "auth-group", "auth-group-enable" arguments for module-native-protocol-unix are only available when "if defined(HAVE_CREDS)". 2. Checks for user membership are only done "#ifdef HAVE_CREDS". 3. HAVE_CREDS macro is undefined for FreeBSD because pulseaudio uses Linux (-only?) ancillary message SCM_CREDENTIALS for authentication in sockets communication. Are my assumptions true? Thanks in advance. PS Sorry for my terrible English.
