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

Tim Van Holder tim.vanholder at anubex.com
Mon Jan 23 14:43:04 UTC 2006


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 homedir "fixes" it,
but seems unacceptable to me - gdm has no reason to dictate
how I manage my system's groups, especially not on the level
of home directories (I can accept that it wants a specific
mode for its own config file, but no more).






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