How can I use pulse as as user on a headless server?

[Klaus Pieper <kfpieper@web.de>]

Hi gurus,

I have a dac attached to a debian server running mpd and output the 
sound from the desktop machine to pulseaudio on the server. This works 
if I start pulseaudio -D --system which is considered to be "a bad 
idea". Another disadvantage is that mpd does not work connected to alsa 
directly, only through pulse. With wheezy I started pulse with the init 
script and everything was fine, I could play mpd via alsa if no other 
application was connected to pa. With jessie there is not init script 
supplied any more.

How can I autospawn pulse on the remote machine without X? Is there 
another solution besides PA?

Thanks,
Klaus