https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1280
------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-02-07 18:21 -------
There is an additional culprit in /etc/rc.sysinit which makes this worse:
906 # Delete ICE locks
907 rm -rf /tmp/.ICE-unix
This line deletes the entire directory /tmp/.ICE-unix so that even if the ownership is
changed to
root:root, it doesn't stay that way. After every reboot, the directory is recreated
with the
non-root user ownership. So a temporary workaround is to change this line to:
rm -rf /tmp/.ICE-unix/*
so that only the directory contents are removed and the directory itself stays. This
will ensure
that once the ownership is changed to root:root, it stays that way.
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description:
Changing the ownership to root:root does not help as after a reboot, the script
/etc/rc.sysinit
deletes this directory by this command "rm -rf /tmp/.ICE-unix". So when
/tmp/.ICE-unix/ is
recreated it has ownership of the non-root user. According to
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2001-September/msg00176.html , this adds
5
secs to the startup of the desktop (KDE, GNOME) and is also a security risk. Also, the
page
https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/enigma-list/2002-June/014027.html claims this to
be a bug
of libICE (which is part of XFree86-libs). Please fix this so that /tmp/.ICE-unix has
default
ownership of root:root.
