[pulseaudio-tickets] [Bug 75298] New: 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

          Priority: medium
            Bug ID: 75298
                CC: lennart at poettering.net
          Assignee: pulseaudio-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
           Summary: Documentation: section on module-native-protocol-unix
                    should explain how cookie file is found
        QA Contact: pulseaudio-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Severity: normal
    Classification: Unclassified
                OS: All
          Reporter: jonasthiem at googlemail.com
          Hardware: All
            Status: NEW
           Version: unspecified
         Component: misc
           Product: PulseAudio

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).

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.

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