[Adduser-devel] Bug#849265: Bug#849265: adduser: Should not add users to the audio group

Dan Keast daniel at kea.st
Wed Dec 28 22:36:34 UTC 2016


Hi Afif,

That sounds like a great idea to me.

It's a pretty trivial change, but I've attached a patch file if it's of any
use to you.

Thanks,
Dan

On 27 December 2016 at 19:20, Afif Elghraoui <afif at ghraoui.name> wrote:

> Hello and thanks for the report
>
> على السبت 24 كانون الأول 2016 ‫03:52، كتب Daniel Keast:
> >
> > I was having issues with fast user switching in Gnome. When the first
> user
> > leaves something running that uses the sound card the second user only
> gets a
> > "Dummy Output" sound device. Researching the problem led me to find that
> users
> > should not be in the 'audio' group but all of the users on my systems
> were:
> >
> > https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/
> PerfectSetup/
> >
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Audio/TheAudioGroup
> >
> > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Advanced_Linux_
> Sound_Architecture#User_privileges
> >
> > Removing the users from this group fixes the issue completely. I'm not
> sure
> > what package creates users during installation, but the
> --add_extra_groups flag
> > for this command adds this group.
> >
>
> I'd like to get in touch with the udev maintainers about this. There may
> be other groups in this set of extra_groups that are in a similar
> situation.
>
> Thanks and regards
> Afif
>
> --
> Afif Elghraoui | عفيف الغراوي
> http://afif.ghraoui.name
>
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