[I accidentally sent this only to Marti, you're getting it twice, sorry] Marti Raudsepp schrob: > Can't you just copy ~/.pulse-cookie to all users' profiles, so > everyone can access anyone else's PA daemon? It works for me, but I'm > just using different user accounts within one X session. Oops, you're exactly right. Even better, the auth-group parameter does exactly what I need: allows access to all users in the jbraun group, without manual copying of the cookie. :) Thanks for the quick answer! Jan P.S.: relevant lines for the benefit of others with the same problem: ~jani/.pulse/default.pa : | load-module module-native-protocol-unix socket=/home/jani/.pulse-native auth-group=jbraun .bashrc (of all my users): | export PULSE_SERVER='unix:/home/jani/.pulse-native' -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20100417/a1a79acf/attachment.pgp>