Re: [CentOS] su command

On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 8:57 AM, Jerry Geis geisj@pagestation.com wrote:

I am running pulseaudio on centOS 6.5 audio works fine as the user. running the command aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav works fine.

when I login as root and run the command su user -c "aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav" it does not work.

I thought su actually runs as that user... is there some "magic" to su I don't know about? How might I get that to work ?

There is magic in who 'owns' certain devices which probably includes audio and it has some relationship to logging in at the console. (As if 'the console' has some meaning in unix-like systems...).