On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 07:17:49PM +0100, Jan Stary wrote: > According to sndio(7), it should be possible for different users > to share a sndio session by sharing the .aucat_cookie: > > AUTHENTICATION > If a shared sndiod(1) server is running, for privacy reasons only one > user may have connections to it at a given time (though the same user > could have multiple connections to it). Users are identified by their > session cookie, which is automatically generated by audio or MIDI > applications upon the first connection to the server. The cookie is > stored in $HOME/.aucat_cookie and contains 128 bits of raw random data. > > If a session needs to be shared between multiple users, they can > connect > to the server using the same cookie. > > Testing this, alice connects to the running sndiod with > > alice$ play -n synth sin 440 gain -9 > > which plays just fine. While this keeps playing, > if bob tries to play something, he gets rejected: > > bob$ play -n synth sin 440 gain -9 > play FAIL formats: can't open output file `default': > > If alice makes her cookie available to bob with > > alice$ cp ~/.aucat_cookie /tmp/ > alice$ chmod a+r /tmp/.aucat_cookie > > and bob takes that with > > bob$ cp /tmp/.aucat_cookie ~ > bob$ chmod 600 ~/.aucat_cookie > > he should be able to share the running sndiod session, right? > But he still gets rejected: > > bob$ play -n synth sin 440 gain -9 > play FAIL formats: can't open output file `default': > > This is current/i386. > Am I missing something obvious?
It's supposed to work your way. Check that there is no any forgotten AUDIODEVICE variable exported and that there's a single shared server (ie running as _sndio). You could also try to kill sndiod, and start it with -dd, verify that alice is actually connected and see why bob's connection is being dropped. -- Alexandre
