Op Wed, 13 Aug 2014 16:06:47 +0200 schreef Floris <jkfloris at dds.nl>: >> Hey, >> >> I have a multiseat setup all, soundcards are moved to seat1, except for >> one Logitech USB Speaker. >> Nevertheless, Pulseaudio on seat0 show all soundcards from both seats >> >> Is this a Debian or an upstream bug? >> > > > PulseAudio doesn't know anything about seats, but that doesn't > necessarily make this a PulseAudio bug. This can also be a bug in Debian > or ConsoleKit/logind (I don't know which one Debian is nowadays using). > On a single-seat system ConsoleKit/logind should set audio device > (/dev/snd/*) permissions so that only the "currently active" user has > access to the devices. It should be possible to extend this logic to > multi-seat systems as well, and I wouldn't be surprised if > ConsoleKit/logind already support this. > I don't know about the current situation, but I believe at least in the > past Debian used to add users automatically to the "audio" group, which > overrides any fancy logic that ConsoleKit/logind tries to implement. > Users in the "audio" group always have access to all devices. Make sure > you are not in the "audio" group. > --Tanu Removing me from the audio group did the trick. The Debian installer added me to that group. I think I will contact the Debian Installer Maintainers to ask them to remove the auto-add-to-audio group. Thanks Tanu, floris
