<description>
<p>The PulseAudio client library reads configuration directives from
- a file <file>~/.pulse/client.conf</file> on startup, and when that
+ a file <file>~/.pulse/client.conf</file> on startup and when that
file doesn't exist from
<file>@pulseconfdir@/client.conf</file>.</p>
<p>The configuration file is a simple collection of variable
declarations. If the configuration file parser encounters either ;
- or # for it ignores the rest of the line until its end.</p>
+ or # it ignores the rest of the line until its end.</p>
- <p>For the settings that take a boolean argument, the values
+ <p>For the settings that take a boolean argument the values
<opt>true</opt>, <opt>yes</opt>, <opt>on</opt> and <opt>1</opt>
are equivalent, resp. <opt>false</opt>, <opt>no</opt>,
<opt>off</opt>, <opt>0</opt>.</p>
<option>
<p><opt>autospawn=</opt> Autospawn a PulseAudio daemon when
- needed. Takes a boolean value, defaults to "no".</p>
+ needed. Takes a boolean value, defaults to <opt>yes</opt>.</p>
</option>
<option>
<option>
<p><opt>extra-arguments=</opt> Extra arguments to pass to the
PulseAudio daemon when autospawning. Defaults to
- <opt>--log-target=syslog --exit-idle-time=5</opt>
+ <opt>--log-target=syslog</opt>
</p>
</option>
</option>
<option>
- <p><opt>disable-shm=</opt> Disable data transfer via POSIX
+ <p><opt>enable-shm=</opt> Enable data transfer via POSIX
shared memory. Takes a boolean argument, defaults to
- <opt>no</opt>.</p>
+ <opt>yes</opt>.</p>
</option>
<option>
memory overcommit.</p>
</option>
+ <option>
+ <p><opt>auto-connect-localhost=</opt> Automatically try to
+ connect to localhost via IP. Enabling this is a potential
+ security hole since connections are only authenticated one-way
+ and a rogue server might hence fool a client into sending it its
+ private (e.g. VoIP call) data. This was enabled by default on
+ PulseAudio version 0.9.21 and older. Defaults to
+ <opt>no</opt>.</p>
+ </option>
+
+ <option>
+ <p><opt>auto-connect-display=</opt> Automatically try to connect
+ to the host X11's $DISPLAY variable is set to. The same security
+ issues apply as to <opt>auto-connect-localhost=</opt>. Defaults
+ to <opt>no</opt>.</p>
+ </option>
+
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