[CentOS] How to enable sound for other users but the one who owns the current session

Tue Jul 8 07:32:43 UTC 2014
wwp <subscript at free.fr>

Hello Robert,


On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 12:01:15 -0500 Robert Nichols <rnicholsNOSPAM at comcast.net> wrote:

> On 07/05/2014 02:46 AM, wwp wrote:
> > Hello Michael,
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 4 Jul 2014 16:55:51 -0500 (CDT) Michael Hennebry <hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, 4 Jul 2014, wwp wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Fri, 4 Jul 2014 11:25:33 -0500 (CDT) Michael Hennebry <hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On Thu, 3 Jul 2014, wwp wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> 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.
> >>>>
> >>>> If A enables sound, does it work for other users?
> >>>
> >>> What do you mean exactly saying "A enables sound"?
> >>
> >> >From the question, I infer that for A, sound just works:
> >> A need not do anything special to enable sound.
> >
> > I'm sorry Michael, but I don't get the logic behind your words. User
> > 'A' logs in a GNOME session, he has sound activated and working by
> > default. This is not a sufficient condition to get sound for
> > applications started by user 'B' or 'C' in a terminal, via `su` or
> > `sudo`.
> >
> > Issue fixed anyway, as I reported earlier.
> 
> Would you please indicate just _where_ you reported your fix?  The only
> posts from you that I can find on this list are included in the quoted
> text above.

Apparently I replied to Harald instead of replying to the ML, by
mistake. Now redirected that reply, you should now have received
another mail from me to this ML, mentioning the fix.


Regards,

-- 
wwp
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