[pulseaudio-tickets] [Bug 107039] New: Checking for accessibility of the home dir by comparing uids does not work with a network drive

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107039

            Bug ID: 107039
           Summary: Checking for accessibility of the home dir by
                    comparing uids does not work with a network drive
           Product: PulseAudio
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: major
          Priority: medium
         Component: core
          Assignee: pulseaudio-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: linschn at gmail.com
        QA Contact: pulseaudio-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
                CC: lennart at poettering.net

Hi guys,

I just got bitten byt the way you verify whether the home folder is accessible:

https://github.com/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/blob/master/src/pulsecore/core-util.c#L1431

My home is a SSHFS and the local guid does not match the remote st_uid returned
by stat() so pulseaudio won't start even though the home folder is perfectly
accessible.

IMHO The best way to test if a home folder is accessible is to actually write
and read from it, instead of trusting stat().

Happy to test the changes you may make.

Cheers,

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