On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Ken Mandelberg <km at mathcs.emory.edu> wrote: > We mount the same home directory by NFS on multiple machines. Some of the > machines may even have multiple sessions by the same user. > > Is there some way to tell pulseaudio to use different ~/.pulse directories > perhaps indexed with some string contrived to be unique for the session? > > _______________________________________________ > pulseaudio-discuss mailing list > pulseaudio-discuss at lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss Seems there are three environment variables to set: PULSE_CONFIG_PATH Defaults to ~/.pulse, contains configuration files like client.conf, daemon.conf and default.pa. PULSE_STATE_PATH Defaults to ~/.pulse, contains server state files which should be kept across reboots. PULSE_RUNTIME_PATH Defaults to /tmp/pulse-${random}. If unset, also creates a link in ~/.pulse called ${machineid}-runtime. Should not be kept across reboots. So for your setup, PULSE_CONFIG_PATH should probably stay unset (use ~/.pulse) while PULSE_RUNTIME_PATH should be set to some unique, secure dir in /tmp on login. I'm not sure how to handle PULSE_STATE_PATH. Make it volatile (like PULSE_RUNTIME_PATH) and lose state after logout? Or on login and logout, sync it to/from NFS (somehow atomically), so the user always loads the state of the last session that was logged out? May not even make sense to share this between machines.
