Hendrik Strydom wrote:
On Thu, 2014-07-03 at 00:37 +0200, wwp wrote:
Hello there!
I'm trying to get sound from applications running from other users bug the one who owns the current GNOME sessions.
Typically, my default user is "A" and he's running the GNOME session, logged in graphically. From this session, I open terminals, su to other users (B or C, non-root) and run mplayer or firefox. No sound for these.
Adding those users to the "audio" group didn't help. Any idea how to do this?
From very limited experience where I attempted it and got this to work
with some semblance of reliability once long ago I can tell you that it involves something around: load-module module-native-protocol-tcp auth-ip-acl=127.0.0.1
More details about this approach can be found via: (for example)
http://billauer.co.il/blog/2014/01/pa-multiple-users/
You can also run Pulseaudio in 'system mode' - see:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/SystemWide/
I haven't tried either of these approaches
You can also by-pass Pulseaudio and use ALSA directly by modifying the central ALSA config files (or overriding them via individual user configs) - I've done this for a single user on a workstation - but not for multiple users, but I guess with the correct dev perms this should work as well
James Pearson