No sound in second login, Ubuntu 10.04

Question

I have Ubuntu 10.04 installed on my system. When I am logged on locally I have excellent sound.

If I make a second login as a different user ssh -X other@localhost that user cannot get audio.

When I try to run mplayer I get the error message

AO: [pulse] Init failed: Connection refused
Failed to initialize audio driver 'pulse'

Should I ssh as the console-user, everything works fine.
I suspect that somehow I should enable pulseaudio for this second user, however I don't know how to do this.

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(If someone wonders why I do this, I am experimenting with having different account for dedicated tasks. Like banking, youtubeing, etc.)

Answer 1

I found the answer, there are some pulseaudio settings in Pulseaudio Preferences that are needed. However that is not installed by default in Ubuntu 10.04.

 sudo apt-get install paprefs
 paprefs

(paprefs also available System -> Preferences -> Pulseaudio Preferences)

Enable "Network access to local sound devices".

/L

Answer 2

Well ... I don't know about Ubuntu, but in Mandriva Linux there is a setting in the sound configuration called "Enable user switching for audio applications" which makes what you are asking for. Unfortunately I don't know how to set this in console or in Ubuntu.

You could also try to disable pulse and use only alsa and see if it's working that way.