https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52483
Bug #: 52483
Summary: Pulseaudio requires access to files for which it has
no permission
Classification: Unclassified
Product: PulseAudio
Version: unspecified
Platform: x86-64 (AMD64)
OS/Version: Linux (All)
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: misc
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
QAContact: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
Consider you are using plain ALSA and do
username@machine $ sudo -u nick mplayer /tmp/foo.wav
You would expect this to play /tmp/foo.wav as user nick and you would expect
this to play the audio and it does.
Now, let's bring in PulseAudio to the mix.
PulseAudio requires access to /home/username/.<whatever> files when trying to
pull this off, but there is no guarantee that such permissions are there, and
in fact user 'nick' has no business in username's home directory and the result
is that it doesn't work.
chmod 700 /home/username and then come up with any method playing audio while
pulseaudio owns the hardware device and then you can close this bug.
For me this is a blocker to use PulseAudio.
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