Bug#339965: gdm: Complaining of wrong permissions on .dmrc

[Michael Rasmussen]

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 the same error message.

The funny thing is that if you look in as root you see no error message.
So my best guess is that GDM does not use the entered username when
looking for .dmrc but uses root's .dmrc

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14-2-686
Locale: LANG=da_DK, LC_CTYPE=da_DK (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii  adduser                  3.79            Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]    1.4.59          Debian configuration management sy
ii  gksu                     1.3.6-1         graphical frontend to su
ii  gnome-session            2.10.0-8        The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii  gnome-terminal [x-termin 2.10.0-3        The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii  konsole [x-terminal-emul 4:3.4.2-4       X terminal emulator for KDE
ii  kwin [x-window-manager]  4:3.4.2-4       the KDE window manager
ii  libart-2.0-2             2.3.17-1        Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0              1.10.3-1        The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libattr1                 2.4.25-1        Extended attribute shared library
ii  libaudiofile0            0.2.6-6         Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libbonobo2-0             2.10.1-1        Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0           2.10.1-1        The Bonobo UI library
ii  libbz2-1.0               1.0.2-10        high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6                    2.3.5-8         GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libcroco3                0.6.0-2         a generic Cascading Style Sheet (C
ii  libdmx1                  6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 Distributed Multihead X client lib
ii  libesd-alsa0 [libesd0]   0.2.36-1        Enlightened Sound Daemon (ALSA) - 
ii  libgconf2-4              2.10.1-6        GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt11              1.2.2-1         LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglade2-0              1:2.5.1-2       library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0             2.8.4-1         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0        0.4.5-1         GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0              2.10.1-1        The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0        2.10.2-2        A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0             2.10.1-1        The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0           2.10.1-5        The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnutls11              1.0.16-14       GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libgpg-error0            1.1-4           library for common error values an
ii  libgsf-1-113             1.13.3-1        Structured File Library - runtime 
ii  libgtk2.0-0              2.6.10-2        The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                  6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62                6b-10           The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  liborbit2                1:2.12.4-1      libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpam-modules           0.79-3          Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime           0.79-3          Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g                 0.79-3          Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpango1.0-0            1.8.2-3         Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                 1.7-5           lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  librsvg2-2               2.9.5-6         SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libselinux1              1.26-1          SELinux shared libraries
ii  libsm6                   6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 X Window System Session Management
ii  libtasn1-2               0.2.17-1        Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libwrap0                 7.6.dbs-8       Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6                 6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxau6                  6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 X Authentication library
ii  libxdmcp6                6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 X Display Manager Control Protocol
ii  libxext6                 6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxi6                   6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 X Window System Input extension li
ii  libxinerama1             6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 X Window System multi-head display
ii  libxml2                  2.6.22-2        GNOME XML library
ii  metacity [x-window-manag 1:2.10.3-2      A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii  xbase-clients            6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 miscellaneous X clients
ii  xlibs                    6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 X Window System client libraries m
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulat 6.8.2.dfsg.1-10 X terminal emulator
ii  zlib1g                   1:1.2.3-8       compression library - runtime

Versions of packages gdm recommends:
ii  dialog                    1.0-20051107-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii  gdm-themes                0.4.1          Themes for the GNOME Display Manag
ii  whiptail                  0.51.6-31      Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii  zenity                    2.10.1-1       Display graphical dialog boxes fro

-- debconf information:
  gdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/gdm
* shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm