Ubuntu
pulseaudio package

  1. Bug #433654
  2. Comment #53

Comment 53 for bug 433654

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Igor Wojnicki (wojnicki) wrote : Re: [Karmic]&[Lucid] Only one user has sound; no hw shows in Sound Preferences

Regarding the property 'Use audio device' and my motion (comment #48).

Giving it a second thought the rename might be unfortunate. Especially if one does not have consolekit installed.

If consolekit IS NOT installed than assigning a user to audio group makes an audio device accessible to him, which translates into 'Use audio device' property which does that (by the way it seems that all these properties translate into assigning the user to particular groups).

If console kit IS installed, than upon log in/user switching, it applies, through udev, acl to make /dev/{snd,audio,mixer) accessible by the user which logs in/is switched to. Than, assiginig a user to audio group doesn't make any sense and the name is misleading.

Bottomline. Since consolekit depends on ubuntu-dektop, which makes it default and necessary package for ubuntu, the best solution would be not to include a default desktop user in the audio group. It can be performed by altering the gnome user profiles in /etc/gnome-system-tools/users/profiles, see included attachment.