[pulseaudio-tickets] [Bug 52483] Pulseaudio requires access to files for which it has no permission

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52483

--- Comment #5 from Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi> 2012-09-08 10:20:14 UTC ---
Thinking this a bit more, using "sudo -H" quite likely won't work either. The
default model is that while one user has a session active, nobody else has
access to the audio hardware, so having $HOME properly set doesn't help much.
Using the system-wide mode is currently probably the easiest way of making this
particular use case work, but it has its downsides.

I'm not aware of any simple solutions that wouldn't also have severe drawbacks,
so a fix for this bug is not likely to happen soon (I barely have enough time
for patch review, so I don't do much coding myself nowadays). If someone is
willing to work on this, I have some ideas for a not-so-simple solution
(basically a hybrid model where there's a system-wide pulseaudio instance
talking to the hardware and taking care of access control, and per-user
instances that connect to the system-wide instance).

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