[pulseaudio-discuss] permissions of pulseaudio's runtime dir

[john terragon]

Hi

Is it possible to set the permissions of pulseaudio's runtime dir in the default.pa config file? Looking at the source code, the permissions seem to be hardcoded to 755 with a systemwide server and 700 with per-user server. I use a per-user server and I would like to be able to let other users access the server's native unix socket. Passing auth_anonymous=1 to module-native-protocol-unix makes the server accept connections from other users but if I can't have at least an x perm for group or others on pulseaudio's runtime dir, the socket is unreachable. (Of course I could either 1) use module-native-protocol-tcp, but I prefer the unix socket or 2) change the runtime dir permissions by script but when pulseaudio respawns after a crash the permissions will go back to 700)

Thanks
john