Pulseaudio strikes again!

Robert Arkiletian robark at gmail.com
Wed Jun 27 02:19:33 UTC 2012


On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 12:22 PM, David A. De Graaf <dad at datix.us> wrote:
> Does anyone know how to allow root and users other than me to use the
> sound system?
>
> Ever since pulseaudio was introduced in Fedora 8 and Mr. Lennart
> Poettering inflicted his peculiar ideas of security on us, the default
> installation hasn't worked properly, despite many BZ's and copious
> complaints!  Specifically, pulseaudio invents the "seat" and only the
> one person in the "seat" can use the sound system.  This precludes
> having root, or anyone else, from generating sounds - presumably it's a
> security risk.  Bosh!

Yup. Ran into this problem trying to make an alarm clock with atd or
crond. Can't have sound unless you are logged in. I had to totally
remove PA and just use alsa. But I know that's not possible any more.
Now we have systemd too. Joy.

-- 
Robert Arkiletian


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