Comments on: Pulseaudio for multiple users, without system-mode daemon

By: Johnny Five

Johnny Five — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:55:55 +0000

Works great with Debian 12.7 and Devuan 5. Just use ~/.config/pulse instead of ~/.pulse Thanks!

By: al

al — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 16:02:32 +0000

This gruesome hack has been borrowed by EasyOS and it has caused me grief when trying to run pa server because it hogs onto the socket arghhhh

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 18:16:07 +0000

What a shitty hack. Why can’t I have audio work across different users like it does on other operating systems? I swear to God Lennart Poettering foisted PulseAudio on us just to keep Linux from being competitive with Windows.

By: Liam I.

Liam I. — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 19:35:00 +0000

Other UX-related protocols such as X11 allow more fine-grained control — for example, one can run xhost +SI:localuser:mysecondaccount to SPECIFICALLY whitelist a second account, without opening up the display server to anything-whatsoever able to emit packets from localhost. MariaDB allows piggybacking off unix-username for authentication, too.

Does PulseAudio have any similar controls? A blanked whitelist for TCP 127.0.0.1 may work, but it seems inelegant.

By: delt

delt — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 05:31:04 +0000

Works great on Mint 19.3, thanks!!

By: Nick Dietz

Nick Dietz — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 17:05:33 +0000

This helped fix my daughters problem of no sound running minecraft client on centos 7 under a separate minecraft user account. It was hard to understand why it didn’t work at first.

By: abc

abc — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 20:04:55 +0000

Skaperen, you’ve to create the directory yourself, if it’s not present

By: abc

abc — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 16:02:56 +0000

Still works in 2019. Thank you. The only suggestion, is that you should’ve written in caps “VERY EASY SOLUTION” on the first line. I was inclined to skip the article at first

By: Skaperen

Skaperen — Fri, 09 Aug 2019 17:50:05 +0000

it’s not working for me. there is no ~/.pulse directory in my Xubuntu 18.04.

i have 25 users on my laptop with typically 10 or more logged in at the same time. i jump from user to user often. i just want the music to keep on playing.

By: Thorsten

Thorsten — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 22:16:55 +0000

Thank you very much.

I used this solution for a longer time, but switched to unix socket. With this solution, there is no “master” user and you can control which users are allowed to use the socket by the “audio” group.

I followed this guide:
https://dhole.github.io/post/pulseaudio_multiple_users/