On Fri, 2014-08-22 at 11:26 -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: > Note that the directory is chowned if pacmd or pactl are called as > root with the "wrong" runtime dir. While I have no opinion on the > merits of allowing --check to work as root, I think that calling > `pacmd list-sinks` as root should not break the user's pulseaudio. I agree. Feel free to send a patch or open a bug report. -- Tanu