[pulseaudio-discuss] Pulseaudio 5.0 doesn't respect seat options

[Floris]

Op Wed, 13 Aug 2014 16:06:47 +0200 schreef Floris <jkfloris at dds.nl>:

>> Hey,
>>
>> I have a multiseat setup all, soundcards are moved to seat1, except for  
>> one Logitech USB Speaker.
>> Nevertheless, Pulseaudio on seat0 show all soundcards from both seats
>>
>> Is this a Debian or an upstream bug?
>>
>
>
> PulseAudio doesn't know anything about seats, but that doesn't
> necessarily make this a PulseAudio bug. This can also be a bug in Debian
> or ConsoleKit/logind (I don't know which one Debian is nowadays using).
> On a single-seat system ConsoleKit/logind should set audio device
> (/dev/snd/*) permissions so that only the "currently active" user has
> access to the devices. It should be possible to extend this logic to
> multi-seat systems as well, and I wouldn't be surprised if
> ConsoleKit/logind already support this.
>  I don't know about the current situation, but I believe at least in the
> past Debian used to add users automatically to the "audio" group, which
> overrides any fancy logic that ConsoleKit/logind tries to implement.
> Users in the "audio" group always have access to all devices. Make sure
> you are not in the "audio" group.
>  --Tanu

Removing me from the audio group did the trick. The Debian installer added  
me
to that group. I think I will contact the Debian Installer Maintainers to  
ask
them to remove the auto-add-to-audio group.

Thanks Tanu,

floris