--check option seems not to work from su(1)

gdg@xxxxxxxxxx (Glenn Golden) · Thu, 21 Aug 2014 16:55:20 -0600

A side issue that I came across, related to the --check option, but not the
doc issue itself:

Suppose the root user wishes to use the --check option to see if user xyz
has a PA daemon running. He does this:

    #  XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1234  pulseaudio --check -v

which dutifully reports (correctly) that "Daemon running as PID xxx".  But
it also has the silent side effect that the directory /run/user/1234/pulse is
chowned to root.root, thus preventing user xyz from further communication
with the daemon due to accesss permission violation.

Two questions:

  * Can you reproduce this?
  * What is your view as to whether this is a bug? (IMO it is, and was going
    to report it, but wanted to hear your view.)

Thanks!