Try using "su -" to get a login shell. For example:
# su - user -c pwd
/home/user
# su user -c pwd
/root
You are trying to run pulseaudio in root's environment with the user's
permissions.
Regards,
Martin
>-----Original Message-----
>From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
>Behalf Of Jerry Geis
>Sent: 08 May 2014 14:58
>To: centos at centos.org
>Subject: [CentOS] su command
>
>I am running pulseaudio on centOS 6.5
>audio works fine as the user.
>running the command
>aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav
>works fine.
>
>when I login as root and run the command su user -c "aplay
>/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav"
>it does not work.
>
>I thought su actually runs as that user...
>is there some "magic" to su I don't know about?
>How might I get that to work ?
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>jerry
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