On Sun, 2013-03-17 at 21:08 +0200, Tanu Kaskinen wrote: > On Sat, 2013-03-16 at 20:50 -0500, ninja mocha wrote: > > I have two users: admin user who is firewalled from the Internet and a > > user called 'web' who is not firewalled. > > > > > > In order for the admin user to use the Internet, they have to use this > > command: > > > > > > gksudo -u web firefox > > > > > > The command works fine, expect no audio plays. How do I get the audio to > > be shared between users? > > You can enable TCP access in the pulseaudio server of the "admin user". > Assuming that you don't already have ~/.config/pulse/default.pa, create > that file with these contents: > > .include /etc/pulse/default.pa > > load-module module-native-protocol-tcp listen=127.0.0.1 port=4712 > > Then restart pulseaudio. (Note that prior to PulseAudio 3.0, the > configuration directory was ~/.pulse instead of ~/.config/pulse.) > > Next, put this in /home/web/.config/pulse/client.conf: > > default-server = tcp:127.0.0.1:4712 > > Now the web user should connect to your admin user's pulseaudio server. Oops, I forgot to mention that you should also copy ~/.config/pulse/cookie from the admin user to the web user. For PulseAudio versions less than 3.0, the file is ~/.pulse-cookie. The cookie is used for authentication. If you want, you can disable authentication altogether by giving argument auth-anonymous=yes to module-native-protocol-tcp. -- Tanu
