Paplay fails when running as sudo #28
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I changed the subprocess.call with playsound https://pypi.org/project/playsound/ if you think it is ok I can submit a merge request. |
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Yeah, I'd be very happy if you submit a pull request for that. Thanks! |
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Just here to comment that this is still an issue in 2024 |
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Still waiting on someone who cares enough to submit a PR. |
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This makes a subprocess for the scanner, and only gives root permission to that subprocess so that: 1. We are more secure 2. the ding works with pulse audio. There are some issues with the pkexec setup and envs, but `sudo -E $(which wifi-survey) -S ...` does work with this patch
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When running the script as root it fails to play the sound:
It looks like it is not possible to run paplay with sudo.
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