On Sunday 23 November 2014 09:25:46 David Henningsson wrote:
> On 2014-11-22 22:39, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > it is possible to enable shared memory when pulseaudio is
> > stared in system mode?
>
> Not without recompiling PulseAudio, the relevant code is in
> src/pulsecore/protocol_native.c, function command_auth:
>
> #ifdef HAVE_CREDS
> if (do_shm) {
> /* Only enable SHM if both sides are owned by the
> same * user. This is a security measure because otherwise
> data * private to the user might leak. */
>
> const pa_creds *creds;
> if (!(creds = pa_pdispatch_creds(pd)) || getuid() !=
> creds->uid) do_shm = false;
> }
> #endif
>
> Maybe there's more stuff that needs to be changed as well, I
> don't know.
Ok, so what about adding parameter which force SHM support if
user/administrator/owner of system want to do that?
--
Pali Rohár
pali.rohar at gmail.com
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