Gustavo Noronha Silva a écrit : > Em Ter, 2005-08-30 às 14:45 +0200, Olivier Schwander escreveu: > >>Josselin Mouette a écrit : >> >>>It could be some GNOME program run as root with HOME=/home/olivier. >> >>The problem appeared after an upgrade of gnome-session and a logout. But >> only one user is concerned: an .ICEauthority used by an other user >>only with kde has a good owner. >>I may have used Synaptic as root but I don't understand how it could >>have bad $HOME. I tried with su and gksu but owner is preserved. >>I know that I have not forced HOME=/home/olivier. > > > Might be... I created a new user here tro try gksu + > $some_GNOME_programs here. I tried nautilus, evolution; I even invoked a > full gnome-session as root using gksu to try it out and make sure. > No .ICEauthority was created at all. > > gksu does leave some variables like USERNAME and LOGNAME untouched, > though, so a misbehaving program could be the problem there. I tried > synaptic, though, and it works without creating a .ICEauthority. > > Haven't you tried to run something else as root, using other means, > maybe? > > See ya, > I tried to launch various gnome programs as root or not but there is no .ICEauthority file created. The only way to obtain a .ICEauthority file is at the first launch of a gnome session. The file has the good owner. If I delete the file, it is never recreated. I can't manage to find what program created this file.