Users-admin, the audio privilege needs clarification
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: gnome-system-tools
In Lucid (haven't checked Maverick), there is the a privilege checkbox named "use audio devices". Checking this checkbox is the same as membership in the group named "audio".
Access to sound cards are allowed either through console-kit, to the currently logged in user, or through being member of the audio group. So in recent versions of Ubuntu, the default is to *not* be in the audio group, and let console-kit handle permissions.
We've had a few bugs of people having enabled these, then complaining about that when they're using fast-user-
The solution might be as simple as changing the text from "Use audio devices" to "Use audio devices even when logged out" or something similar, but I'm not sure.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: gnome-system-tools 2.30.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: f6f6c1db2c80d23
CheckboxSystem: 4ed15c40009aa6f
Date: Thu Aug 12 21:20:07 2010
ProcEnviron:
LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-system-tools
Subscribing ubuntu-audio-dev since it would be good for these people to know what will happen with this bug.