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title="NEW --- - Documentation: section on module-native-protocol-unix should explain how cookie file is found"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75298">75298</a>
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<td>lennart@poettering.net
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<td>pulseaudio-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<td>Documentation: section on module-native-protocol-unix should explain how cookie file is found
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<td>pulseaudio-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<td>normal
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<td>Unclassified
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<td>All
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<td>jonasthiem@googlemail.com
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<td>All
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<td>NEW
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<td>unspecified
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<td>misc
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<td>PulseAudio
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<pre>There is a docs section for the module-native-protocol-unix module:
<a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/Modules/#index22h3">http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/Modules/#index22h3</a>
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).
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?
I'm not really objecting to that process itself, but it would be really helpful
if this was actually documented in the section I linked. If it is already
documented elsewhere, please add a helpful reference to the section I linked so
people can find out where their auth cookie file is actually located, and why.</pre>
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