On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 02:21:25PM +0000, Jona Joachim wrote: > > > > 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.
Too bad if this works, because nobody will fix mpd to use unix domain sockets by default ;-) -- Alexandre