--- infopipe.c      Sun Dec 10 11:44:30 2000
+++ infopipe.c  Sat Feb 10 20:25:13 2001
@@ -66,6 +66,15 @@
  */
 void init_plugin(void) {
 
+       /*      added my Mike Cherry <mike@sterlingpolice.net>
+               using strcat to form the chown cmd needed
+       */
+
+       char cmd_chown[512] = "chown ";
+       strcat(cmd_chown, FIFO_USER);
+       strcat(cmd_chown, PADDING);
+       strcat(cmd_chown, FIFO_FILE);
+
   /* See if the file exists... */
   if(access(FIFO_FILE,F_OK)==0) {
     /*
@@ -85,6 +94,11 @@
   if(mkfifo(FIFO_FILE,0600) != 0) {
     fprintf(stderr,"Unable to create a pipe...");
     xmms_remote_quit(infopipe_gp.xmms_session);
+  } else {
+       /*      added by Mike Cherry <mike@sterlingpolice.net>
+               run the chown command
+       */
+       system(cmd_chown);
   }
 
   /* Create the thread that handles pipe stuff. */

--- infopipe.h	Sun Dec 10 11:44:47 2000
+++ infopipe.h	Sat Feb 10 20:25:23 2001
@@ -27,4 +27,16 @@
 */
 #define FIFO_FILE "/tmp/xmms-info"
 
+/*
+	added by Mike Cherry <mike@sterlingpolice.net>
+	put the user to chown the fifo_file to here,
+
+	yeah this is crappy code, but it was a quick
+	(very quick) solution.
+
+*/
+
+#define FIFO_USER "nobody"
+#define PADDING " "
+
 #endif /* INFOPIPE_PLUGIN_INFOPIPE_H */