[pulseaudio-discuss] module-native-protocol-unix and FreeBSD

[Lennart Poettering]

On Sun, 11.01.09 03:19, Alexander Gromnitsky (alexander.gromnitsky at gmail.com) wrote:

You could also use normal auth cookies. I.e. copy ~/.pulse-cookie from
the server user to the client users.

> 1. "auth-group", "auth-group-enable" arguments for
>    module-native-protocol-unix are only available when "if
>    defined(HAVE_CREDS)".
> 
> 2. Checks for user membership are only done "#ifdef HAVE_CREDS".
> 
> 3. HAVE_CREDS macro is undefined for FreeBSD because pulseaudio uses
>    Linux (-only?) ancillary message SCM_CREDENTIALS for authentication
>    in sockets communication.
> 
> Are my assumptions true?

Yes. As of now we support only SCM_CREDENTIALS. Patches welcome for
SO_PEERCRED, Solaris-style getpeerucred(3C) or BSD style getpeerid(3)/LOCAL_CREDS.

> Sorry for my terrible English.

Not that bad at all!

Lennart

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