On mar., 2013-09-03 at 19:10 +0200, Yuri D'Elia wrote: > I noticed this issue a couple of months ago. > > lightdm likes to create (backup?) copies of .Xauthority files for some > reason. > I never paid attention to the dynamics, but I have a > dozen .Xauthority.* files > in my ~ which look like stale cookies and/or temporary files created > by > mkstemp(2) or a similar function. > > Moreover, all these files, *including* the current .Xauthority file > are created > 0644, which is a (grave) security issue by itself. > > This effect also seems to be reported in ubuntu, with no action: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/1175023
I don't have .Xauthority files polluting my homedir so I'm not sure what happens to you, but the 0644 perms indeed don't look too good. Stay tuned. Regards, -- Yves-Alexis
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