Multi-users access to audio (pulseaudio?)

[S P Arif Sahari Wibowo]

Hi!

I would like to grant access to audio to certain users other 
than the one currently login physically / on console. I tried to 
add all those users to the group pulse-access, pulse, and audio, 
but it does not work. I still get this error:

$ paplay /usr/share/sounds/gnome/default/alerts/sonar.ogg
Connection failure: Connection refused
pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refused

Anybody know how to setup this?

Thanks!

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[Roberto Ragusa]

S P Arif Sahari Wibowo wrote:
>  On 2010-10-20, 20:17, stan wrote:
> > There is a way to use pulseauido as a system server, but as I 
> > understand it there are flaws or issues.
>  
>  Yes. Apparently more like a hack than a supported feature.
>  
> > One, I think, is that everyone hears everything from everyone 
> > else.  If there is only one device on the system, and two 
> > people want to play different music through it, they will both 
> > play at the same time.  Probably not what you want.
>  
>  Actually, seems to be the only reasonable semantic given the 
>  situation, and exactly what I want. I run some application as 
>  different user id for separation purposes, but I want all 
>  application have access to sound. 
I run different applications as different users, just like you.
The only good method to have sound sharing (consisting often in
simple beeps from chat programs) is to run pulseaudio in system
mode (the deprecated/unsupported/ohmygod one).

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[S P Arif Sahari Wibowo]

On 2010-10-20, 20:17, stan wrote:
>  There is a way to use pulseauido as a system server, but as I 
>  understand it there are flaws or issues. 
Yes. Apparently more like a hack than a supported feature.

>  One, I think, is that everyone hears everything from everyone 
>  else.  If there is only one device on the system, and two 
>  people want to play different music through it, they will both 
>  play at the same time.  Probably not what you want. 
Actually, seems to be the only reasonable semantic given the 
situation, and exactly what I want. I run some application as 
different user id for separation purposes, but I want all 
application have access to sound.

>  I suggest you ask this question on the pulseaudio mailing list 
>  as the pulseaudio maintainers are regulars there. 
Ok, I'll try that.

Thanks!

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[stan]

On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 13:34:25 -0600 (MDT)
S P Arif Sahari Wibowo <arifsaha(a)yahoo.com&gt; wrote:

>  Hi!
>  
>  I would like to grant access to audio to certain users other 
>  than the one currently login physically / on console. I tried to 
>  add all those users to the group pulse-access, pulse, and audio, 
>  but it does not work. I still get this error:
>  
>  $ paplay /usr/share/sounds/gnome/default/alerts/sonar.ogg
>  Connection failure: Connection refused
>  pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refused
>  
>  Anybody know how to setup this? 
PulseAudio in its native configuration restricts sound to the first
user to log in, as a security measure.

There is a way to use pulseauido as a system server, but as I
understand it there are flaws or issues.  One, I think, is that
everyone hears everything from everyone else.  If there is only one
device on the system, and two people want to play different music
through it, they will both play at the same time.  Probably not what
you want.

I suggest you ask this question on the pulseaudio mailing list as
the pulseaudio maintainers are regulars there.

pulseaudio-discuss(a)mail.0pointer.de

You can  search the archives for the pulseaudio mail list at
http://www.gmane.org.  Do a search for pulseaudio to bring it up.

You can sign up at

https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/options/pulseaudio-discuss/