Re: [Cooker] How to get sound to work across an "su" (in a different user)

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi!

On Jan 8, 2008 4:34 PM, Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud@mandriva.com> wrote:
> Olivier Thauvin <nanardon@nanardon.zarb.org> writes:
>
> > > > What should I do to get sound working for processes running as a
> > > > different under-privileged user in this situation? Google is no
> > > > help.
> > >
> > > add everybody in the sound group
> >
> > Isn't 'audio' group ?
>
> That's a minor technical point :-)
>

Thanks! adding all the users to the "audio" group in /etc/group and
running "sg" and "newgrp" (all as root) did the trick, and I can now
play audio as these different users after "su"ing to them.

Regards,

         Shlomi Fish

>
> > [nanardon@apus tools]$ ls -l /dev/dsp
> > crw-rw----+ 1 nanardon audio 14, 3 2008-01-05 06:00 /dev/dsp
> > [nanardon@apus tools]$ grep sound /etc/group
> > [nanardon@apus tools]$ grep audio /etc/group
> > audio:x:81:
>



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