On Fri, 01.01.10 22:42, Bill Cox (waywardgeek at gmail.com) wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 6:57 AM, Lennart Poettering > <lennart at poettering.net> wrote: > >> And this is the problem because it works with alsa, simply add every > >> user you want to give audio access to the audio group and it worked. > >> Even with OSS this worked. But PA breaks this behaviour. > > > > First of all, we broke exactly nothing. You can always bypass PA and do > > stuff like this. > > > > Secondly, allowing access to the audio device to all users is a > > security hole as I tried to explain quite a few times. Allowing that > > means a user can evesdrop into your voip calls, he can even completely > > monitor whatever you say when you sit in front of your computer. > > How can I "bypass PA" on a Ubuntu Karmic or Lucid? If I disable > user-land pulseaudio, several applications break, including the volume > control. PulseAudio has been Vulcan mind-melded into the system. If > you know of a realistic way to bypass PulseAudio, by all means, please > state it! Simply use the "front:xxxx" device string when using ALSA instead of the default of "default" or "pulse". Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4