On 2011-06-27, Alexandre Ratchov <a...@caoua.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 02:42:42PM +0200, Jona Joachim wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I start mpd and aucat with default settings using rc scripts.
>> aucat thus runs as user _sndio and mpd runs as _mpd.
>> Access to sndio between mpd and programs running as a different user are
>> mutually exclusive, so when mpd is playing music nothing else can access
>> the sound device.
>> According to the aucat(1) manpage:
>> "[...] the server can be started by the super-user, [...] but for
>> privacy reasons only one user may have connections to it at a given
>> time."
>> I was wondering if this is intended behaviour because aucat here does
>> not run as root but as _sndio.
>
> This is ok, the _sndio user is to avoid running the server with root
> privileges, it's not involved in the "authentication" process. You can
> find slightly more details about how it works in the AUTHENTICATION
> section of the sndio(7) man page.
>
> The simpler -- and most natural imho -- would be configure mpd to use
> unix domain sockets (instead of TCP) and to run it as your user id
> instead of _mpd.
>
> If you can't, you can cheat by copying mpd's ~/.aucat_cookie in your
> home directory (it must have mode 0600) this way aucat will consider
> _mpd and you are the same person. After all, I guess you run _mpd for
> you ;)
I see, this is the new authentication mechanism kicking in :)
Thanks for the explanation, now that I know what's causing it, it's easy to fix.
Best regards,
Jona
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