On 12/30/15, Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi> wrote: > > If you only need to care about root getting access to your main user > (that is, you're the only human user of the laptop), I think the > easiest solution would be to use "sudo --user=john --set-home pactl > set-sink-mute SINK toggle". Replace SINK with the alsa sink name, you > can find the name with "pactl list sinks". Thanks for the 'pactl ...' suggestion; that did work (with proper user supplied, etc). For the benefit of others, note that I did have to go through a little slice of SELinux hell to get it to work from the acpid script. You can't just run "pactl" commands from the acpid security context out-of-the-box, it would seem. I filed a bug for that issue, but who knows when or if that might be addressed: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1298432 This solution still does have the downside of needing to know what user to target. I am determining that by looking at who ran the 'pulseaudio -D' command, but that's a bit lame. Maybe the more "proper" solution would be to run in system mode, but that still leaves me a little uneasy.
