Bug#359629: Bug #359629 is triggered by home dirs with permissions of 700 (gdm Fails to read/write .Xauthority in users home dir)

2007-09-23 Thread Loïc Minier
severity 359629 important stop On Sun, Sep 23, 2007, Géraud Meyer wrote: > By changing the permissions of /home/ from 700 to 750 (which was > the default I believe), gdm stops complaining Interesting information, thanks! -- Loïc Minier

Bug#359629: Bug #359629 is triggered by home dirs with permissions of 700 (gdm Fails to read/write .Xauthority in users home dir)

2007-09-22 Thread Géraud Meyer
Package: gdm Version: 2.18.4-1 I have the same problem as bug #359629: the following message appears in the log: gdm[4431]: gdm_auth_user_add: Could not open cookie file /home//.Xauthority and the Xauthority file used by gdm is in /tmp. By changing the permissions of /home/ from 700 to 750 (w