Package: tightvncserver
Version: 1:1.3.10-2
Severity: normal
Tags: none
Steps to reproduce:
# adduser --home '/home/john doe' johndoe
Adding user `johndoe' ...
Adding new group `johndoe' (1009) ...
Adding new user `johndoe' (1007) with group `johndoe' ...
Creating home directory `/home/john doe' ...
Copying files from `/etc/skel' ...
New password:
Retype new password:
passwd: password updated successfully
Changing the user information for johndoe
Enter the new value, or press ENTER for the default
Full Name []:
Room Number []:
Work Phone []:
Home Phone []:
Other []:
Is the information correct? [Y/n]
# su - johndoe
johndoe@debian:~$ vncpasswd
Using password file /home/john doe/.vnc/passwd
VNC directory /home/john doe/.vnc does not exist, creating.
Password:
Verify:
Would you like to enter a view-only password (y/n)?
johndoe@debian:~$ vncserver
cat: /home/john: No such file or directory
cat: doe/.vnc/passwd: No such file or directory
xauth: timeout in locking authority file /home/john
xauth: timeout in locking authority file /home/john
sh: 1: cannot create /home/john: Permission denied
cat: /home/john: No such file or directory
cat: 'doe/.vnc/t470:1.pid': No such file or directory
Couldn't start Xtightvnc; trying default font path.
Please set correct fontPath in the vncserver script.
sh: 1: cannot create /home/john: Permission denied
cat: /home/john: No such file or directory
cat: 'doe/.vnc/t470:1.pid': No such file or directory
Couldn't start Xtightvnc process.
Unrecognized option: doe/.Xauthority
use: X [:<display>] [option]
-a # mouse acceleration (pixels)
[...]
You can workaround the issue by symlinking the home directory
johndoe@debian:~$ ln -s . /tmp/jdoe
johndoe@debian:~$ export HOME=/tmp/jdoe
johndoe@debian:/home/john doe$ vncserver
You will require a password to access your desktops.
Password:
Verify:
Would you like to enter a view-only password (y/n)?
xauth: file /tmp/jdoe/.vnc/.Xauthority does not exist
New 'X' desktop is debian:1
Creating default startup script /tmp/jdoe/.vncstartup
Starting applications specified in /tmp/jdoe/.vncstartup
Log file is /tmp/jdoe/.vnc/debian:1.log
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'stable'), (700, 'unstable'), (500,
'stable-updates')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not
set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages tightvncserver depends on:
ii libc6 2.31-9
ii libjpeg62-turbo 1:2.0.6-2
ii libx11-6 2:1.7.0-2
ii perl 5.32.1-2
ii x11-common 1:7.7+22
ii x11-utils 7.7+5
ii xauth 1:1.1-1
ii xserver-common 2:1.20.10-3
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-2
Versions of packages tightvncserver recommends:
ii x11-xserver-utils 7.7+8
ii xfonts-base 1:1.0.5
Versions of packages tightvncserver suggests:
pn tightvnc-java <none>
