[pulseaudio-discuss] Pulseaudio server for playing 32-bit chroot sounds on 64-bit host machine

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Ng Oon-Ee at 23/04/09 11:02 did gyre and gimble:
> To add-on to the above topic.
> 
> I've mentioned earlier in my initial mail that my /tmp folder contains 
> two different pulse-XXXX directories. My googling has revealed that it 
> seems the XXXX should be my username, but as far as I've observed, that 
> does not seem to be the case in my install, could that be the source of 
> the problem?


No, the information you found is outdated. Using a username can lead to 
other users doing a kind of DoS (Denial of Sound!) attack by creating a 
file owned by themselves with your username in it.

Col

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