[pulseaudio-discuss] system-wide daemon

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 09.02.10 20:07, Markus Rechberger (mrechberger at gmail.com) wrote:

> > Bypassing this layer and accessing things directly is not IMO a good
> > design. Everything is possible with the appropriate mechanisms in place
> > and no functionality is sacrificed, but you have to be prepared to
> > accept that old approaches will not last forever nor survive the tests
> > of time.
> 
> your scenario is definitely over engineered for many people out
> there.  I see your points and I see it as a valid scenario but as
> mentioned not as a valid reason for hard restricting users. On the
> other side the only way out of this dilemma is to set up systemwide
> service which pretty much cannot be done in a generic way with all
> distributions which use PA due random config paths and inherited
> configuration files.  As long as this isn't fixed I hope operating
> systems don't make a hard dependency on PA only so people can still
> jump back to the old behavior.

It's not particularly hard to load another module-native-protocol-unix
instance and losen its access restrictions to allow other users
access, if you don't care about security.

Lennart

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