Re: [gdm-list] Problem with .ICEauthority

[Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM>]

Jean:

I'm not sure that this is a GDM issue.  Note that libICE is a part of
the X consolidation.  I don't see that GDM displays any messages about
.ICEauthority locking issues.

I'd recommend that you touch base with an x.org forum (refer to
http://www.x.org/) and pose your question there.

Does GDM work better if you leave the UserAuthDir directory is blank?
If it is blank, then GDM will use the user's $HOME directory.  Note
UserAuthDir only affects where the Xauth keys are placed and should not
affect ICEauthority, I'd think.

Note GDM only has code in daemon/slave.c to ensure that the
.ICEauthority permissions are set properly.  If so it will call
fchown to ensure the file is owned by the user and the user's group
and fchmod to set it to S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR.  Other than this GDM doesn't
touch the .ICEauthority file.  Therefore, I don't think GDM is the
source of your problem.

Brian


> I'm trying to install a debian-4.0 workstation inside a win2003 domain.
> The users directories are on a windows server and the session ends
> immediatly with a message saying that .ICEauthority could not be locked.
> The UserAuthDir has been set to /tmp in the gdm configuration file
> because the same issue was reported for .Xauthority.
> I also tried to set ICEAUTHORITY at various places, but no solution I
> could imagine worked.
> Does somebody know a solution to this problem, or should I patch gdm so
> that is sets ICEAUTHORITY?
>
> Thanks
> Jean
>
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