Re: specifying user or socketfile for libxmms

> Mark Rafn <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I can specify the session number to connect to, but as far as I can see, 
> > there's no way to specify the username to connect to.  It appears to use 
> > glib's g_get_user_name, with no option to override.

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Florent Rougon wrote:
> IMHO, your options are:
>   a) use a setuid wrapper around some "XMMS shell" such as PyXMMS-remote
>      (http://people.via.ecp.fr/~flo/index.en.xhtml#PyXMMS-remote), if
>      apache allows that (note that I didn't say setuid root...)

I did some brief experiments with this, none of which actually seemed to 
affect the username that libxmms was getting.

Can anyone describe how g_get_user_name figures out the name to use?  It 
doesn't seem to care about uid, nor any environment var I could find.  

>   b) have apache run as the user whose XMMS session you want to control

heh, or run xmms as the apache user, I guess...

>   c) use the XMMS control protocol through the appropriate socket and
>      with adequate privileges (probably a lot more work than a and b,
>      and if you can sort out the problem of privileges, you can probably
>      already do a and b, so...)

I'm hoping to avoid this.  I'm pretty sure the problem is not priveleges 
(the socket is world-writable), simply getting the right filename.  I'd 
likely hack libxmms rather than rewriting all of the protocol code.
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