[Pianod] Home directory not accessible: Permission denied

[Fritz Hildebrand]

I tried creating  the directory /home/nobody/.config/pulse and that didn't
eliminate the message, but putting "-n pulse" as part of the pianod startup
did get rid of the message, so I'll leave it at that. thanks for the prompt
help replies.

On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Perette Barella <perette at barella.org> wrote:

> It looks like on Arch Linux, it’s usually /root
> You could just use that, or if you don’t want to open up permissions on
> root’s home, you could use /
> You could use /nobody (optionally assign ownership of the directory and
> files to ‘nobody’ too)
>
>
>  On 2014年07月03日, at 23:33, Fritz Hildebrand <fritz.hildebrand at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>  Sorry for my ignorance on this, but what would I set the home directory
> to?
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Perette Barella <perette at barella.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Any chance you’ve got libao configured to use Pulse Audio as an output?
>>  Instances of that particular message suggest it’s the likely culprit.
>>
>> If you are, then...
>> I’m guessing that the libao/PA code tries to read a config file in the
>> home directory when the audio device is opened (not at libao
>> initialization)… and by then pianod has already dropped root privs.
>>
>> Maybe set the HOME environment variable (see Gary Koch’s post), make sure
>> that directory is a+x so ‘nobody’ can access its files, and make sure the
>> Pulse Audio config file (if it exists) is a+r so ‘nobody’ can read it.
>>
>> Perette
>>
>>
>> On 2014年07月03日, at 20:20, Fritz Hildebrand <fritz.hildebrand at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > I'm running pianod-165 on a Raspberry Pi with Arch, and am getting the
>> above message when starting pianod as root with systemctl. systemctl status
>> pianod gives the following:
>> >
>> > * pianod.service - Pandora Client Daemon
>> >    Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/pianod.service; disabled)
>> >    Active: active (running) since Fri 2014-07-04 12:00:31 NZST; 20s ago
>> >  Main PID: 26018 (pianod)
>> >    CGroup: /system.slice/pianod.service
>> >            `-26018 /usr/local/bin/pianod -i /etc/pianod.startscript -u
>> /etc/pianod.userfile -Z 0xfefd
>> >
>> > Jul 04 12:00:41 zenith pianod[26018]: 2014-07-04 12:00:41: 132
>> startscript selected the station: QuickMix
>> > Jul 04 12:00:41 zenith pianod[26018]: 2014-07-04 12:00:41: 200 Success
>> > Jul 04 12:00:41 zenith pianod[26018]: 2014-07-04 12:00:41: Retrieving
>> new playlist
>> > Jul 04 12:00:42 zenith pianod[26018]: 2014-07-04 12:00:42: Server
>> authentication ok
>> > Jul 04 12:00:43 zenith pianod[26018]: Home directory not accessible:
>> Permission denied
>> > Jul 04 12:00:43 zenith pianod[26018]: 2014-07-04 12:00:43: Server
>> authentication ok
>> > Jul 04 12:00:43 zenith pianod[26018]: 2014-07-04 12:00:43: Server
>> authentication ok
>> > Jul 04 12:00:44 zenith pianod[26018]: 2014-07-04 12:00:44: Server
>> authentication ok
>> > Jul 04 12:00:45 zenith pianod[26018]: 2014-07-04 12:00:45: Server
>> authentication ok
>> > Jul 04 12:00:45 zenith pianod[26018]: 2014-07-04 12:00:45: 132
>> startscript has disconnected
>> > It seems to start OK and play music, so that's good, but am wondering
>> what is causing the permission denied error. If I start pianod with "-n
>> root", this message does not appear.
>> >
>> > Any ideas of how to eliminate this message?
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> >
>>  _______________________________________________
>> Pianod mailing list
>> Pianod at lists.deviousfish.com
>> http://lists.deviousfish.com/listinfo.cgi/pianod-deviousfish.com
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Pianod mailing list
> Pianod at lists.deviousfish.com
> http://lists.deviousfish.com/listinfo.cgi/pianod-deviousfish.com
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Pianod mailing list
> Pianod at lists.deviousfish.com
> http://lists.deviousfish.com/listinfo.cgi/pianod-deviousfish.com
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.deviousfish.com/pipermail/pianod-deviousfish.com/attachments/20140707/395003d3/attachment-0001.htm>