On Do, 24.12.20 05:38, John (gray...@archlinux.us) wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 3:29 AM Andrei Borzenkov <arvidj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 5:48 AM John <gray...@archlinux.us> wrote:
> > >
> > > I need to have the following start
> > > /usr/lib/systemd/user/pulseaudio.service so it can make use of
> > > pulseaudio.  Using a After= or Wants= does not work.  What is the
> > > correct way to have a system service like this run a user service
> > > unit?
> > >
> >
> > No, that's not possible. PA also supports system service, if this is a
> > kiosk system, maybe you can use it instead.
>
> Thank you for the reply.  There are security risks running pulseaudio
> in system mode[1].

Well, but what you are doing is worse, you reverse the layers of the
stack...

If you want a system service that shall use PA, then PA should be a
system service too.

Lennart

--
Lennart Poettering, Berlin
_______________________________________________
systemd-devel mailing list
systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel

Reply via email to