Package: gdm3 Version: 2.30.2-4 Severity: important It appears that my ~/.Xauthority file is being ignored with gdm3. This appears to be an undocumented change to gdm functionality for upgrade from gdm.
It's breaking several of my ssh related scripts, since ssh is still honouring the .Xauthority file, so I can no longer pass authority from one machine to another. (The old x2x trick doesn't work for example: ssh -fX myotherhost x2x -west -to :0 ) without a newly required xhost + on the target machine. Also, it seems that the xauth program doesn't want to work quite correctly- importing authority from .Xauthority with xauth file doesn't quite take correctly. (The above trick should, I believe, work, after I do that, but doesn't). These weird sideeffects of what is no doubt an attempt to tighten up security for gdm3 are why I'm filing this as important- it's clear that either ssh and other programs need to know about the new default in gdm3 (fun!) or gdm3 should expose a setting for the old behaviour (which it doesn't appear to, though documentation is very very sparse at this point). Thanks Christian -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (700, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages gdm3 depends on: ii adduser 3.112 add and remove users and groups ii awesome [x-window-manag 3.4.5-1 highly configurable, next generati ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.32 Debian configuration management sy ii gconf2 2.28.1-3 GNOME configuration database syste ii gnome-session [x-sessio 2.30.0-1 The GNOME Session Manager - GNOME ii gnome-session-bin 2.30.0-1 The GNOME Session Manager - Minima ii gnome-terminal [x-termi 2.30.1-1 The GNOME terminal emulator applic ii kde-window-manager [x-w 4:4.4.4-1 the KDE 4 window manager (KWin) ii konsole [x-terminal-emu 4:4.4.4-1 X terminal emulator for KDE 4 ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.21-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libatk1.0-0 1.30.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libattr1 1:2.4.44-2 Extended attribute shared library ii libaudit0 1.7.13-1+b1 Dynamic library for security audit ii libbonobo2-0 2.24.3-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library ii libbonoboui2-0 2.24.3-1 The Bonobo UI library ii libc6 2.11.2-1 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libcairo2 1.8.10-4 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libcanberra-gtk0 0.24-1 Gtk+ helper for playing widget eve ii libcanberra0 0.24-1 a simple abstract interface for pl ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.24-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.86-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdevkit-power-gobject 1:0.9.4-2 abstraction for power management - ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.3.11-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgconf2-4 2.28.1-3 GNOME configuration database syste ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.1-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnome2-0 2.30.0-1 The GNOME library - runtime files ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.30.1-1 A powerful object-oriented display ii libgtk2.0-0 2.20.1-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii liborbit2 1:2.14.18-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB ii libpam-modules 1.1.1-3 Pluggable Authentication Modules f ii libpam-runtime 1.1.1-3 Runtime support for the PAM librar ii libpam0g 1.1.1-3 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libpanel-applet2-0 2.30.0-2 library for GNOME Panel applets ii libpango1.0-0 1.28.1-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.96-2 PolicyKit Authorization API ii libpolkit-gtk-1-0 0.96-2 PolicyKit GTK+ API ii libpopt0 1.16-1 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii librsvg2-common 2.26.3-1 SAX-based renderer library for SVG ii libselinux1 2.0.94-1 SELinux runtime shared libraries ii libwrap0 7.6.q-19 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-3 X11 client-side library ii libxau6 1:1.0.5-2 X11 authorisation library ii libxdmcp6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 Display Manager Control Protoc ii libxklavier16 5.0-2 X Keyboard Extension high-level AP ii libxml2 2.7.7.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library ii lsb-base 3.2-23.1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii metacity [x-window-mana 1:2.30.1-2 lightweight GTK+ window manager ii mutter [x-window-manage 2.31.2-3 lightweight GTK+ window manager ii policykit-1-gnome 0.96-2 GNOME authentication agent for Pol ii ratpoison [x-window-man 1.4.5-2 keyboard-only window manager ii upower 0.9.4-2 abstraction for power management ii xterm [x-terminal-emula 259-1 X terminal emulator ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime Versions of packages gdm3 recommends: ii at-spi 1.30.1-2 Assistive Technology Service Provi ii gnome-icon-theme 2.30.3-1 GNOME Desktop icon theme ii gnome-power-manager 2.30.1-1 power management tool for the GNOM ii gnome-settings-daemon 2.30.1-1 daemon handling the GNOME session ii xnest 2:1.7.7-2 Nested X server ii xserver-xephyr 2:1.7.7-2 nested X server ii xserver-xorg 1:7.5+6 the X.Org X server ii zenity 2.30.0-1 Display graphical dialog boxes fro Versions of packages gdm3 suggests: ii gnome-mag 1:0.16.1-1 a screen magnifier for the GNOME d ii gnome-orca 2.30.1-1 Scriptable screen reader ii gok 2.30.0-1 GNOME Onscreen Keyboard ii libpam-gnome-keyring 2.30.1-2 PAM module to unlock the GNOME key ii metacity 1:2.30.1-2 lightweight GTK+ window manager -- Configuration Files: /etc/gdm3/daemon.conf changed: [daemon] TimedLoginEnable=false AutomaticLoginEnable=false TimedLogin= AutomaticLogin= TimedLoginDelay=30 [security] [xdmcp] [greeter] [chooser] [debug] -- debconf information: * shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm3 gdm3/daemon_name: /usr/sbin/gdm3 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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