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
This implies the pulse server must provide a local network service and the clients must be configured to connect to this server.
Updating default.pa in .pulse directories and granting access to pulse* groups also rings a bell. Sadly I kept few notes on this so can only find this hint at present. There must be better ways to do it and if you get it working I would be keen to know how, so please provide feedback. I also recall murmurs of security issues around shared pulse services, obviously more so if the ip is not localhost, so consider that too.