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Firstly I have to say I'm really enjoying Ubuntu 13.04, many changes seem subtle but overall it seems to be a much improved experience over 12.10. Most notably the snappy gui responsivity is awesome. There's actually not a whole lot I can complain about so far, and that's an unusual experience for me with Linux! But my major grievance at the moment, is having recently upgraded to Raring, I've noticed that:

"sudo su testuseraccount", then running any application, results in that application running without audio. :O( Where as doing the same on Lubuntu 12.10 (although it didn't work on my Ubuntu 12.10 livecd session) the sound is fine.

I imagine if there's no workaround for this, it will totally kill any chance of using Raring Ringtail as a multiseat OS. Also it means applications that won't run at all without audio, won't run when they're running on a secondary login.

I had a look posts regarding simultaneous multi user access to pulse audio, but it's all double Dutch to me, and I suspect most of it wasn't relevant to this particular situation.

So can anyone tell me if there's anything that can be done to get back sound on secondary user sessions?

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Seems like only users belonging to the audio group can use audio devices after switching user accounts with su. So you have to do this:

sudo usermod -G audio -a account

(replace account with the account you want to use audio with)

It will then work for new sessions started after adding the user to the audio group.

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