Re: [gdm-list] Problem with .ICEauthority

[Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM>]

Jean:

The fact that both Xauth and ICEauthority files don't seem to work
with your user's $HOME directory may be an indication of a deeper
problem with the way your system is configured.  You might try
loosening the RelaxPermissions configure option since GDM does
avoid using the user's $HOME directory if the permissions are bad.
Changing RelaxPermissions allows you to use $HOME directories with
not-so-good permissions.

I'd recommend trying to understand why Xauth and ICEauthority
doesn't work with your $HOME directory.  Again, I suspect this
isn't really related to GDM directly, though.

Brian


> Le vendredi 22 juin 2007 �5:13 +0800, Brian Cameron a �it :
> > 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.
>
> In that case, things fail even earlier upon execution of xauth.
>
> > 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.
>
> I could fix my problem by adding a line in /etc/gdm/Xsession:
> export ICEAUTHORITY=`mktemp /tmp/.iceXXXXXX`
>
> but I don't like to change scripts, it's much better to change a
> configuration file IMHO.
>
> Jean
>
>
> > 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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