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