Re: [orca-list] Can pulseaudio be made to work with consoles and Orca at the same time?

[Luke Yelavich <themuso ubuntu com>]

On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 11:35:12PM EST, Jacob Schmude wrote:
> Hi
> To do what you wish, you will have to change the configuration in /etc/default/pulseaudio to launch a 
> system-wide daemon rather than a per-user session of Pulse. Following that, you will need to add any users 
> you wish to be able to communicate with Pulseaudio to the pulse-access group so they will have permission 
> to use the audio. It's a simple enough configuration though Ubuntu doesn't use it this way by default due 
> to supposed security implications.

Upstream even recommends staying away from the system wide pulseaudio setup, due to security concerns. 
Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, Suse etc all set up PulseAudio to be used in a user session by default.

Luke