[Freeswitch-users] Stumped by mod_portaudio permissions issue

Tom Lynn tom at tomlynn.com
Mon Feb 3 00:43:50 UTC 2020 

One more item, I still don't have pulseaudio installed and the pa commands
work, so pulseaudio is not strictly necessary.

On Sun, Feb 2, 2020 at 4:33 PM Tom Lynn <tom at tomlynn.com> wrote:

> I followed your steps, and yes, pa commands function when freeswitch is
> run from the command line.  Nice!
>
> I tried running it as both root and as user tom.  Both times I was able to
> use the pa commands with success.  I tried running user tom group user from
> the systemd startup and was not successful using pa commands.
>
> The question becomes, why does this not work using the freeswitch.service
> configuration file supplied with the packaged freeswitch?  I installed
> freeswitch-meta-all.
>
> Tom
>
> On Sun, Feb 2, 2020 at 9:02 AM Tamer Higazi via FreeSWITCH-users <
> freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Tamer Higazi <th982a at googlemail.com>
>> To: freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org
>> Cc:
>> Bcc:
>> Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2020 18:02:09 +0100
>> Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] Stumped by mod_portaudio permissions issue
>> Dear Tom,
>>
>> This is not true.
>> I am running freeswitch as the user I am logged in.
>>
>> as root:
>> chown -R tamer:users /opt/freeswitch
>>
>> as user:
>> /opt/freeswitch/bin/freeswitch -nc
>>
>> as user:
>> fs_cli -r
>>
>> and you will see portaudio runs without any problems.
>>
>> I have it in combination with pulseaudio running.
>>
>>
>> best, Tamer
>>
>> On 2020-02-02 17:01, Tom Lynn wrote:
>> > I do not have pulse audio installed.
>> >
>> > I can access alsamixer and aplay from the shell while logged in as
>> > either root or freeswitch without issues.
>> >
>> > mod_portaudio only works WHEN I'm running freeswitch under group root,
>> > which I will not be able to do in a production environment.
>> >
>> > On Sun, Feb 2, 2020 at 7:24 AM Tamer Higazi via FreeSWITCH-users
>> > <freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org
>> > <mailto:freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org>> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >     ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> >     From: Tamer Higazi <th982a at googlemail.com
>> >     <mailto:th982a at googlemail.com>>
>> >     To: freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org
>> >     <mailto:freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org>
>> >     Cc:
>> >     Bcc:
>> >     Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2020 15:22:31 +0100
>> >     Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] Stumped by mod_portaudio
>> >     permissions issue
>> >     Dear Mark,
>> >
>> >     I tell you exactly why.
>> >
>> >     That is less a permission issue.
>> >
>> >     if you open the shell as "root" and type alsamixer you won't be
>> >     capable
>> >     to access the soundcard because "root" is not in the 1st) sound
>> group
>> >     and 2nd) root ha no access to the pulseaudio server
>> >
>> >     This is why I MUST run freeswitch as the user that is currently
>> >     logged in.
>> >
>> >     mod_alsa doesn't work at all. I didn't get it running, only
>> >     mod_portaudio....
>> >
>> >
>> >     best, Tamer
>> >
>> >
>> >     On 2020-02-02 07:59, Tom Lynn wrote:
>> >     > For what it's worth, I'm running into this very same issue over 4
>> >     > years after the original poster.  I suspect that leaving off the
>> >     group
>> >     > option is leaving the process running as group root, which would
>> >     mimic
>> >     > my attempt at having the service run as user freeswitch/group
>> root,
>> >     > which allows mod_portaudio to function.
>> >     >
>> >     > I've posted here in the mail list, on IRC and in Slack, but the
>> >     only
>> >     > bite was someone hinting about freeswitch user needing to be in
>> >     group
>> >     > audio, which it is.  This is broken. I've looked at submitting a
>> >     JIRA
>> >     > on this, but my login doesn't appear to allow it.
>> >     >
>> >     > On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 9:45 AM Mark Haun <haunma at keteu.org
>> >     <mailto:haunma at keteu.org>
>> >     > <mailto:haunma at keteu.org <mailto:haunma at keteu.org>>> wrote:
>> >     >
>> >     > covici at ccs.covici.com <mailto:covici at ccs.covici.com>
>> >     <mailto:covici at ccs.covici.com <mailto:covici at ccs.covici.com>>
>> >     >     [covici at ccs.covici.com <mailto:covici at ccs.covici.com>
>> >     <mailto:covici at ccs.covici.com <mailto:covici at ccs.covici.com>>]
>> wrote:
>> >     >     > If  using alsa, did you check the permission of /dev/snd
>> >     and its
>> >     >     > children?
>> >     >
>> >     >     Yes.  In fact, both alsa operations (aplay) and portaudio
>> >     >     enumeration work
>> >     >     correctly when running as the freeswitch user.  All of this is
>> >     >     detailed in
>> >     >     my initial post, two or three weeks ago.
>> >     >
>> >     >     Mark
>> >     >
>> >     >
>> >
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>> >     ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> >     From: Tamer Higazi via FreeSWITCH-users
>> >     <freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org
>> >     <mailto:freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org>>
>> >     To: freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org
>> >     <mailto:freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org>
>> >     Cc:
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>> >     Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2020 07:24:11 -0800 (PST)
>> >     Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] Stumped by mod_portaudio
>> >     permissions issue
>> >
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>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Tamer Higazi via FreeSWITCH-users <
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>> To: freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org
>> Cc:
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>> Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2020 09:02:50 -0800 (PST)
>> Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] Stumped by mod_portaudio permissions issue
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