ICYMI: Unless it's just a typo in this email, it looks like you have "auth-group=mewgroup" with an M instead of an N. Don't know if that will fix anything, but ... Joe On 4/1/20 10:07 AM, bru red wrote: > i'm running slackware64-14.2 with default configuration. It uses > pulseaudio as the sound system. I'm unable to get sound from programs > run by another user with sudo. > > I created long ago a new group called "newgroup" to which I added the > user that runs pulseaudio mainuser and created a new user newuser > belonging to newgroup. > > i set "auth-group=mewgroup" to module-native-protocol-unix in > ~mainuser/.config/pulse/default.pa and i can see that it is properly > loaded through pacmd. But still when running audio programs like > mplayer as newuser with sudo i can't get sound. Same problem with > graphical programs. > > the socket created is as follows: > > drwx------ 2 mainuser users 4096 avril 1 18:36:59 /tmp/pulse-t5rfGHe56b5G > /tmp/pulse-t5rfGHe56b5G > ├── [srwxrwxrwx mainuser users Apr 1 18:36] cli > ├── [srwxrwxrwx mainuser users Apr 1 18:35] native > └── [-rw------- mainuser users Apr 1 18:35] pid > > when i run an audio outputting program as newuser with sudo i see a new > folder /tmp/pulse-xxxXXxxXXXxx created and nothing inside. > > in /etc/group: > audio:x:17:root,pulse,mainuser,newuser > _______________________________________________ > pulseaudio-discuss mailing list > pulseaudio-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss _______________________________________________ pulseaudio-discuss mailing list pulseaudio-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss
