Pipewire services start up on remote (ssh) logins

[Daniel Richard G.]

This concern pipewire 0.3.48-1ubuntu1 in Ubuntu jammy.

I log into an installed system via ssh, and I see

skunk@darkstar:~$ ps auxww | grep skunk
root 13771 0.5 0.1 19772 12224 ? Ss 07:35 0:00 sshd: skunk [priv]
skunk 13774 5.4 0.1 17160 9940 ? Ss 07:35 0:00 /lib/systemd/systemd --user
skunk 13775 0.0 0.0 25600 5292 ? S 07:35 0:00 (sd-pam)
skunk 13782 0.4 0.0 34460 6360 ? Ssl 07:35 0:00 /usr/bin/pipewire
skunk 13783 0.4 0.0 18632 6856 ? Ssl 07:35 0:00 /usr/bin/pipewire-media-session
skunk 13801 0.0 0.0 8412 4340 ? Ss 07:35 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --session --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation --syslog-only
skunk 13831 0.0 0.0 19932 8052 ? S 07:35 0:00 sshd: skunk@pts/0
skunk 13832 0.0 0.0 5256 4124 pts/0 Ss 07:35 0:00 -bash
skunk 13854 0.0 0.0 7692 3328 pts/0 R+ 07:35 0:00 ps auxww
skunk 13855 0.0 0.0 4024 2144 pts/0 S+ 07:35 0:00 grep --color=auto skunk

Pipewire is a multimedia service. It should not be running in a remote, non-graphical login.

[Derek Roberts (b-ubuntu-7)]

I see this on Debian 11 also, together with a bunch of error messages each time I login remotely

Jul 3 21:10:49 b3 pipewire[590807]: could not set nice-level to -11: Permission denied
Jul 3 21:10:49 b3 pipewire[590807]: could not make thread realtime: Permission denied
Jul 3 21:10:49 b3 pipewire-media-session[590817]: could not set nice-level to -11: Permission denied
Jul 3 21:10:49 b3 pipewire-media-session[590817]: could not make thread realtime: Permission denied