[pulseaudio-discuss] --check option seems not to work from su(1)

[Felipe Sateler]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Glenn Golden <gdg at zplane.com> wrote:
> A side issue that I came across, related to the --check option, but not the
> doc issue itself:
>
> Suppose the root user wishes to use the --check option to see if user xyz
> has a PA daemon running. He does this:
>
>     #  XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1234  pulseaudio --check -v
>
> which dutifully reports (correctly) that "Daemon running as PID xxx".  But
> it also has the silent side effect that the directory /run/user/1234/pulse is
> chowned to root.root, thus preventing user xyz from further communication
> with the daemon due to accesss permission violation.
>
> Two questions:
>
>   * Can you reproduce this?

I haven't had a chance to try to reproduce it yet, but this sounds a
lot like https://bugs.debian.org/758272

>   * What is your view as to whether this is a bug? (IMO it is, and was going
>     to report it, but wanted to hear your view.)

I think it is.

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler