[pulseaudio-tickets] [Bug 75298] Documentation: section on module-native-protocol-unix should explain how cookie file is found

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75298

Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |FIXED

--- Comment #2 from Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi> ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> There is a docs section for the module-native-protocol-unix module:
> 
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/
> Modules/#index22h3
> 
> It documents an auth cookie process which is apparently a file based
> authentication (it doesn't mention really what a cookie is for pulseaudio:
> it is some file with randomly generated stuff serving as a temporary login
> key file thing I suppose? It may be obvious to some, but to newcomers it
> could be helpful adding a line or two of explanation for that).

Thanks for the suggestion, I now added a short explanation of the cookie file.
I'll close this bug, please reopen if you think the explanation should be more
elaborate.

> It says the default location is ~/.pulse-cookie and there is an auth-cookie
> option to specify another location. Now, my default.pa doesn't use that
> option, so I naturally assumed it was in ~/.pulse-cookie. However, there is
> no such file.
> 
> What happened? Apparently (I got this from some guy on IRC), pulseaudio uses
> some environment vars to determine it ends up in /run/user/1000 or something?

It doesn't end up in the runtime directory (/run/user/1000), it ends up in the
configuration directory (~/.config/pulse) and the default file name is now
"cookie".

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