Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] My computer thinks I'm schizophrenic, is PA for me?

2010-05-07 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 19.04.10 19:23, Jan Braun (janbr...@gmx.de) wrote: 1;2400;0c Lennart Poettering schrob: ...and you're explicitly disallowing cross-user shm transfer. :( I guess I'll have to figure out the security implications of messing with that. Well, the story goes like this: we need to

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] My computer thinks I'm schizophrenic, is PA for me?

2010-04-19 Thread Jan Braun
Lennart Poettering schrob: On Fri, 16.04.10 21:02, Jan Braun (janbr...@gmx.de) wrote: You see, currently I'm the only person with access to my desktop pc, but I have several user accounts on it[1]. And I use them all. Simultaneously. As in: several consoles open, often more than 1 xserver

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] My computer thinks I'm schizophrenic, is PA for me?

2010-04-19 Thread Jan Braun
Lennart Poettering schrob: On Sat, 17.04.10 16:42, Jan Braun (janbr...@gmx.de) wrote: Hmm, why not? I've set up PA as you describe (except for the additional auth-group parameter), and PA is creating entries in /dev/shm , even for other users than albert. The PA client libs always

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] My computer thinks I'm schizophrenic, is PA for me?

2010-04-19 Thread Jan Braun
Lennart Poettering schrob: ...and you're explicitly disallowing cross-user shm transfer. :( I guess I'll have to figure out the security implications of messing with that. Well, the story goes like this: we need to make sure that a user A cannot trigger a SIGBUS in processes by user B

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] My computer thinks I'm schizophrenic, is PA for me?

2010-04-19 Thread Nix
On 19 Apr 2010, Lennart Poettering outgrape: On Fri, 16.04.10 21:02, Jan Braun (janbr...@gmx.de) wrote: xterms ssh'd to otheru...@localhost . Why would you ssh to the local machine? 'cos it forwards your X cookie and authentication agent connection for you. (Of course you can do the X cookie

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] My computer thinks I'm schizophrenic, is PA for me?

2010-04-18 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Fri, 16.04.10 21:02, Jan Braun (janbr...@gmx.de) wrote: Hi list, and sorry for bringing up this topic again, but I'm another user who has difficulties with PA's multi-user policy. You see, currently I'm the only person with access to my desktop pc, but I have several user accounts on

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] My computer thinks I'm schizophrenic, is PA for me?

2010-04-18 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Sat, 17.04.10 16:42, Jan Braun (janbr...@gmx.de) wrote: My suggestion is basically the same as your option 3, without the double mixing and tcp overhead (I'm not sure whether using the loopback interface has much more overhead than unix domain sockets, though - you still won't be able

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] My computer thinks I'm schizophrenic, is PA for me?

2010-04-18 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Sat, 17.04.10 18:28, Tanu Kaskinen (ta...@iki.fi) wrote: On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 16:42 +0200, Jan Braun wrote: Hmm, why not? I've set up PA as you describe (except for the additional auth-group parameter), and PA is creating entries in /dev/shm , even for other users than albert. Oh,

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] My computer thinks I'm schizophrenic, is PA for me?

2010-04-17 Thread Tanu Kaskinen
On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 21:02 +0200, Jan Braun wrote: Hi list, and sorry for bringing up this topic again, but I'm another user who has difficulties with PA's multi-user policy. You see, currently I'm the only person with access to my desktop pc, but I have several user accounts on it[1]. And

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] My computer thinks I'm schizophrenic, is PA for me?

2010-04-17 Thread Jan Braun
[I accidentally sent this only to Marti, you're getting it twice, sorry] Marti Raudsepp schrob: Can't you just copy ~/.pulse-cookie to all users' profiles, so everyone can access anyone else's PA daemon? It works for me, but I'm just using different user accounts within one X session. Oops,

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] My computer thinks I'm schizophrenic, is PA for me?

2010-04-17 Thread Jan Braun
Tanu Kaskinen schrob: On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 21:02 +0200, Jan Braun wrote: *** Now is your chance to say that's insane, and we don't support it I can't say it's insane, otherwise I'd be admitting that I've been insane in the past :) Well, you could say you've seen the error of your ways. ;)

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] My computer thinks I'm schizophrenic, is PA for me?

2010-04-17 Thread Tanu Kaskinen
On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 16:42 +0200, Jan Braun wrote: Hmm, why not? I've set up PA as you describe (except for the additional auth-group parameter), and PA is creating entries in /dev/shm , even for other users than albert. Oh, maybe shm does work? I assumed that the logic was that only

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] My computer thinks I'm schizophrenic, is PA for me?

2010-04-17 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Tanu Kaskinen at 17/04/10 16:28 did gyre and gimble: On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 16:42 +0200, Jan Braun wrote: Hmm, why not? I've set up PA as you describe (except for the additional auth-group parameter), and PA is creating entries in /dev/shm , even for other users than albert.

[pulseaudio-discuss] My computer thinks I'm schizophrenic, is PA for me?

2010-04-16 Thread Jan Braun
Hi list, and sorry for bringing up this topic again, but I'm another user who has difficulties with PA's multi-user policy. You see, currently I'm the only person with access to my desktop pc, but I have several user accounts on it[1]. And I use them all. Simultaneously. As in: several consoles

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] My computer thinks I'm schizophrenic, is PA for me?

2010-04-16 Thread Marti Raudsepp
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Jan Braun janbr...@gmx.de wrote: You see, currently I'm the only person with access to my desktop pc, but I have several user accounts on it[1]. And I use them all. Simultaneously. As in: several consoles open, often more than 1 xserver running, xterms ssh'd