Package: gdm Version: 2.16.4-1 Severity: normal
I have a user with home directory /home/user and am using a sudo sandbox for applications such as iceweasel. In order to make that work it is necessary to change the permissions on /home/user/.Xauthority to group readable and the group to a group created to allow access to the ..Xauthority file by the iceweasel-user user. The difficulty arises when I logout and login again (to a gnome desktop). In that case the ..Xauthority file is no longer used and a new one under /tmp is created and used in the XAUTHORITY environment variable. Before I realize this I was using a hardcoded /home/user/.Xauthority in the changing permissions script, which meant xuser never got permission to use the new XAUTHORITY file and therefore iceweasel refused to start (via sudo -u iceweasel-user iceweasel). If I manually deleted the /home/user/.Xauthority before I logged out things worked as expected. It may also matter that I am using a dual-headed display. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-686 Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages gdm depends on: ii adduser 3.102 Add and remove users and groups ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.11etch1 Debian configuration management sy ii gksu 2.0.0-1 graphical frontend to su ii gnome-session 2.14.3-5 The GNOME 2 Session Manager ii gnome-terminal [x-term 2.14.2-1 The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libatk1.0-0 1.12.4-3 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libattr1 2.4.32-1 Extended attribute shared library ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo2 1.2.4-4 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libdmx1 1:1.0.2-2 X11 Distributed Multihead extensio ii libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1.2 generic font configuration library ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.0-4 library to load .glade files at ru ii libglib2.0-0 2.12.4-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.14.0-2 A powerful object-oriented display ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.20-7 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libpam-modules 0.79-5 Pluggable Authentication Modules f ii libpam-runtime 0.79-5 Runtime support for the PAM librar ii libpam0g 0.79-5 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libpango1.0-0 1.14.8-5 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpopt0 1.10-3 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii librsvg2-2 2.14.4-3 SAX-based renderer library for SVG ii librsvg2-common 2.14.4-3 SAX-based renderer library for SVG ii libselinux1 1.32-3 SELinux shared libraries ii libwrap0 7.6.dbs-13 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library ii libxau6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 authorisation library ii libxcursor1 1.1.7-4 X cursor management library ii libxdmcp6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 Display Manager Control Protoc ii libxext6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxfixes3 1:4.0.1-5 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio ii libxi6 1:1.0.1-4 X11 Input extension library ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.1-4.1 X11 Xinerama extension library ii libxml2 2.6.27.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library ii libxrandr2 2:1.1.0.2-5 X11 RandR extension library ii libxrender1 1:0.9.1-3 X Rendering Extension client libra ii lsb-base 3.1-23.2etch1 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip ii metacity [x-window-man 1:2.14.5-4 A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma ii twm [x-window-manager] 1:1.0.1-4 Tab window manager ii xbase-clients 1:7.1.ds1-2 miscellaneous X clients ii xterm [x-terminal-emul 222-1etch2 X terminal emulator Versions of packages gdm recommends: pn gdm-themes <none> (no description available) ii whiptail 0.52.2-10 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe ii zenity 2.14.3-1 Display graphical dialog boxes fro -- debconf information: gdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/gdm * shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
