Pulseaudio strikes again!

[Bill Davidsen]

Robert Arkiletian wrote:
> 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.
>
Security. If it can't be used it can't be misused.

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Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
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