[lug] access to audio from non-desktop login

[Hugh Brown]

Assuming that Fedora 9 is similar to RHEL 5.2: permissions for audio related devices are set by pam_console and configurable in /etc/security/console.perms.d/50-default.perms

You can create an audio group and put both userids in it and alter the default.perms to set the group.

This doesn't scale if you have to share the workstation with lots of other folks.

Hugh

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 11:06:31AM -0700, John Hernandez wrote:
> If you're running Firefox, an alternative might be to run them both as
> the same desktop user.  You should be able to use the 'firefox -P
> <profile>' command-line to run a separate Firefox instance that uses
> your proxy settings.
> 
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Michael J. Hammel
> <mjhammel at graphics-muse.org> wrote:
> > At work I have a secondary userid I've set up that can open windows on
> > the desktop for my primary userid.  I open a Firefox browser from that
> > user that is configured to use a local proxy that is tunneled through to
> > my home.  From that browser I can access my web servers at home via the
> > tunnel.  In this way I have two browsers running - one that uses a proxy
> > (for secondary userid) and one that doesn't (for primary userid).
> >
> > However, the secondary userid browser is not run from the desktop userid
> > so it can't play audio.  Is there a way to enable a non-desktop login to
> > access the audio at the same time as the desktop login under Fedora 9?
> > If I can enable audio then I can access my music and video collections
> > at home via mythweb.
> >
> > FYI - I know streaming through the tunnel works since I can access the
> > collections in my primary userid browser if I change it to use the
> > proxy.  So the only problem is enabling audio for the secondary userid
> > so I don't have to switch proxy configurations repeatedly.
> > --
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> > mjhammel at graphics-muse.org                           http://graphics-muse.org
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