I see the same problem, on a purely local /home (so it's not
NFS-related).
gdm incorrectly complains about .dmrc's permissions while
they're set exactl like it says it wants (and with a minor
spelling error in the English dialog: sould instead of
should).
Removing group write permissions from the
Looking at the source code, setting RelaxPermissions to 1 in the
[security] section of gdm.conf avoids the message too, and it's
a more acceptable solution in my case. So as far as I'm concerned,
this issue ceases to be of any real concern.
Still to be looked at however are:
- (minor) the small
Hi,
I think I have found the problem, but not the solution. The problem
relates to nfs. My home folder is mounted via nfs from a file server
and it seems that gdm will not, for some reason, read settings from a
nfs file system. Is that intentional or is it in fact a bug?
--
As far as I can tell it doesn't read root's .dmrc but I can't tell that
for sure.
What I can tell is what fixes the problem for me. It's removing group
write permissions from my homedir (even though it's owned by the group
in which only my user is in).
After some testing, I noticed that the home
Package: gdm
Version: 2.8.0.6-1
Severity: important
No matter if the file is present or not in complains about wrong
permissions so I wonder where GDM actually looks for the file - maybe in
roots home folder because GDM is running as root? Creating the file with the
permissions asked still gives
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