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FS#4363 - GDM fails to login

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Miguel Manuel Melendez Gomez (miguelmmg) - Tuesday, 04 April 2006, 06:03 GMT
Last edited by arjan timmerman (blaasvis) - Tuesday, 04 April 2006, 07:12 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Architecture not specified
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.1 Noodle
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

GDM (/opt/gnome/libexec/gdmgreeter or /opt/gnome/libexec/gdmlogin) runs as nobody user and tries to read .Xauthority from user's home directory. If home directory has no read access to everyone then GDM exits and shows login screen again.
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Closed by  arjan timmerman (blaasvis)
Wednesday, 24 May 2006, 09:07 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Wednesday, 05 April 2006, 05:13 GMT
gdm runs as root here and has no problem at all reading .Xauthority files in my home directory. I can't reproduce this.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Tuesday, 16 May 2006, 21:08 GMT
Hmm, looks like I can now. This fails for remote hosts where the creation of .Xauthority is required. When logging on to :0, this isn't needed at all.
Comment by arjan timmerman (blaasvis) - Wednesday, 17 May 2006, 13:11 GMT
ok 2.14.6-1 should fix this.

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