On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 09:05:12AM +0200, Björn Försterling wrote: > Hi Sean, > > thank you very much for the reply. > > I figured out my mistake. > I actually modified the HOME environment variable in my program > by using the pointer that was returned by the getenv() function. > (which is not a pointer to a copy of the string but to the actual env var...) > > I wonder why pulseaudio is using these authentication cookies when trying to > connect to a local pulseaudio server though. As the pulse docs [0] put it: >> cookie: A random value which may be used to identify this instance of >> PulseAudio. Not cryptographically secure in any way. It's mainly a sanity check to make sure that you're talking to the pulse server that you're expecting to, on the off chance that multiple servers are running on the same system. --Sean [0]: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/Developer/CoreAPI/
