Can't play sound from terminal w/ some users

[stan]

wwp wrote:
> Hello Tim,
>
>
> On Sun, 25 May 2008 17:35:27 +0930 Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 01:03 +0200, wwp wrote:
>>> I've noticed that when I log in w/ some users in terminals, I'm not
>>> able to play sounds using `aplay`. I get something like the errors
>>> below, whereas it works perfectly for my default user and root. 
>> Different users logged in at the same time, or are you logging
>> completely out, then in again as someone else?
>
> I'm logged in GNOME w/ my default user, and within that session I open
> terminals with root, user1 or user2 (`su -`). User1 and 2 are not able
> to play sound from that terminals whereas root can.
>
> Note that user1 is able to play sound using `aplay` from his own
> parallel KDE session (using User Switcher).
>
>
> Regards,
>
This is a permissions problem.  Someone has to decide if this is 
desirable behavior, and then they have to fix it.  You should go here 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ and do a search for any bugs related to 
this.  If there are none, open a new one with the description above.