Bug#325701: gnome-session: unable to launch gnome due to bad group/owner on .ICEauthority

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Tue Jan 2 14:19:33 CET 2007


Le samedi 30 décembre 2006 à 19:19 +0100, Olivier Schwander a écrit :
> I didn't manage to reproduce the problem:
> I tried to launch kcontrol with su, the only way to modify .ICEauthority
> file is to do HOME=/home/olivier before.
> With gksu, .ICEauthority isn't modified but with sudo it is.
> But the right owner/group is set by gdm at a new login so all works
> properly.

Looks like the following change in GDM:
- Fix for ensuring .ICEauthority file has proper ownership/permissions.
  Addresses CVE-2006-1057.  (Hans Petter Jansson)

If everything is OK now, may I close this bug?

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