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I'm trying to create a System-Wide PulseAudio daemon (I am aware of the security problems associated with that). However, I'm getting an access-denied error when playing through the PulseAudio daemnon (as root). I think it may be because the root user is not in the pulse-access group.
I tried adding it:
adduser root pulse-access
Which, unfortunatly gives me back this error:
addgroup: group 'root' in use
I am running on a small BusyBox, which doesn't has the fancier useradd, etc. commands.
Why can't I / How should I add a user to a specific group, having only access to these two commands?
Running PulseAudio as System-Wide Daemon
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/SystemWide/
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I'm trying to create a System-Wide PulseAudio daemon (I am aware of the security problems associated with that). However, I'm getting an access-denied error when playing through the PulseAudio daemnon (as root). I think it may be because the root user is not in the pulse-access group.
I tried adding it:
adduser root pulse-access
Which, unfortunatly gives me back this error:
addgroup: group 'root' in use
I am running on a small BusyBox, which doesn't has the fancier useradd, etc. commands.
Why can't I / How should I add a user to a specific group, having only access to these two commands?
Running PulseAudio as System-Wide Daemon
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/SystemWide/
users busybox
asked Oct 10 '17 at 13:50
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Does your busybox have ausermodcommand?
– Mark Plotnick
Oct 10 '17 at 14:17
no, not present..
– svenema
Oct 10 '17 at 16:02
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I'm trying to create a System-Wide PulseAudio daemon (I am aware of the security problems associated with that). However, I'm getting an access-denied error when playing through the PulseAudio daemnon (as root). I think it may be because the root user is not in the pulse-access group.
I tried adding it:
adduser root pulse-access
Which, unfortunatly gives me back this error:
addgroup: group 'root' in use
I am running on a small BusyBox, which doesn't has the fancier useradd, etc. commands.
Why can't I / How should I add a user to a specific group, having only access to these two commands?
Running PulseAudio as System-Wide Daemon
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/SystemWide/
users busybox
asked Oct 10 '17 at 13:50
svenema
799
I'm trying to create a System-Wide PulseAudio daemon (I am aware of the security problems associated with that). However, I'm getting an access-denied error when playing through the PulseAudio daemnon (as root). I think it may be because the root user is not in the pulse-access group.
I tried adding it:
adduser root pulse-access
Which, unfortunatly gives me back this error:
addgroup: group 'root' in use
I am running on a small BusyBox, which doesn't has the fancier useradd, etc. commands.
Why can't I / How should I add a user to a specific group, having only access to these two commands?
Running PulseAudio as System-Wide Daemon
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/SystemWide/
users busybox
users busybox
asked Oct 10 '17 at 13:50
svenema
799
asked Oct 10 '17 at 13:50
svenema
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asked Oct 10 '17 at 13:50
svenema
799
asked Oct 10 '17 at 13:50
svenema
799
asked Oct 10 '17 at 13:50
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Does your busybox have ausermodcommand?
– Mark Plotnick
Oct 10 '17 at 14:17
no, not present..
– svenema
Oct 10 '17 at 16:02
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Does your busybox have ausermodcommand?
– Mark Plotnick
Oct 10 '17 at 14:17
no, not present..
– svenema
Oct 10 '17 at 16:02
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Does your busybox have a
usermod command?– Mark Plotnick
Oct 10 '17 at 14:17
Does your busybox have a
usermod command?– Mark Plotnick
Oct 10 '17 at 14:17
no, not present..
– svenema
Oct 10 '17 at 16:02
no, not present..
– svenema
Oct 10 '17 at 16:02
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BusyBox may be compiled with FEATURE_ADDUSER_TO_GROUP disabled (default behaviour of buildroot-2017.08). If that's the case addgroup or adduser cannot be added to a group. At least in theory, because when I enabled the feature I still got the same error.
Easy solution: just edit /etc/group directly, and add the user there yourself. For example:
pulse-access:x:1003:pulse,root
When doing it for a buildroot build, you may want to add this in the fakeroot scripts step:
# Add root user to pulse-access group
if [ -e $TARGET_DIR/etc/group ]; then
sed -i '/^pulse-access:/s/(.*)/1,root/;s/:,/:/' $TARGET_DIR/etc/group
fi
answered Oct 12 '17 at 16:15
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1 Answer
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active
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active
oldest
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active
oldest
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up vote
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down vote
accepted
BusyBox may be compiled with FEATURE_ADDUSER_TO_GROUP disabled (default behaviour of buildroot-2017.08). If that's the case addgroup or adduser cannot be added to a group. At least in theory, because when I enabled the feature I still got the same error.
Easy solution: just edit /etc/group directly, and add the user there yourself. For example:
pulse-access:x:1003:pulse,root
When doing it for a buildroot build, you may want to add this in the fakeroot scripts step:
# Add root user to pulse-access group
if [ -e $TARGET_DIR/etc/group ]; then
sed -i '/^pulse-access:/s/(.*)/1,root/;s/:,/:/' $TARGET_DIR/etc/group
fi
answered Oct 12 '17 at 16:15
svenema
799
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up vote
2
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BusyBox may be compiled with FEATURE_ADDUSER_TO_GROUP disabled (default behaviour of buildroot-2017.08). If that's the case addgroup or adduser cannot be added to a group. At least in theory, because when I enabled the feature I still got the same error.
Easy solution: just edit /etc/group directly, and add the user there yourself. For example:
pulse-access:x:1003:pulse,root
When doing it for a buildroot build, you may want to add this in the fakeroot scripts step:
# Add root user to pulse-access group
if [ -e $TARGET_DIR/etc/group ]; then
sed -i '/^pulse-access:/s/(.*)/1,root/;s/:,/:/' $TARGET_DIR/etc/group
fi
answered Oct 12 '17 at 16:15
svenema
799
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up vote
2
down vote
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up vote
2
down vote
accepted
BusyBox may be compiled with FEATURE_ADDUSER_TO_GROUP disabled (default behaviour of buildroot-2017.08). If that's the case addgroup or adduser cannot be added to a group. At least in theory, because when I enabled the feature I still got the same error.
Easy solution: just edit /etc/group directly, and add the user there yourself. For example:
pulse-access:x:1003:pulse,root
When doing it for a buildroot build, you may want to add this in the fakeroot scripts step:
# Add root user to pulse-access group
if [ -e $TARGET_DIR/etc/group ]; then
sed -i '/^pulse-access:/s/(.*)/1,root/;s/:,/:/' $TARGET_DIR/etc/group
fi
answered Oct 12 '17 at 16:15
svenema
799
BusyBox may be compiled with FEATURE_ADDUSER_TO_GROUP disabled (default behaviour of buildroot-2017.08). If that's the case addgroup or adduser cannot be added to a group. At least in theory, because when I enabled the feature I still got the same error.
Easy solution: just edit /etc/group directly, and add the user there yourself. For example:
pulse-access:x:1003:pulse,root
When doing it for a buildroot build, you may want to add this in the fakeroot scripts step:
# Add root user to pulse-access group
if [ -e $TARGET_DIR/etc/group ]; then
sed -i '/^pulse-access:/s/(.*)/1,root/;s/:,/:/' $TARGET_DIR/etc/group
fi
answered Oct 12 '17 at 16:15
svenema
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edited Oct 13 '17 at 11:07
answered Oct 12 '17 at 16:15
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answered Oct 12 '17 at 16:15
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answered Oct 12 '17 at 16:15
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Does your busybox have a
usermodcommand?– Mark Plotnick
Oct 10 '17 at 14:17
no, not present..
– svenema
Oct 10 '17 at 16:02