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Bug 698328 - permissions of authdir, logdir etc. in daemon/main.c and data/Makefile.am do not match
permissions of authdir, logdir etc. in daemon/main.c and data/Makefile.am do ...
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gdm
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.8.x
Other Linux
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: GDM maintainers
GDM maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-04-18 19:28 UTC by Matthias Dienstbier
Modified: 2018-05-24 10:51 UTC
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Description Matthias Dienstbier 2013-04-18 19:28:06 UTC 
The permissions and owners of several directories created in data/Makefile.am do not match with the permissions and owners GDM will set at runtime. I think these should be kept in sync.

I created a table of the current permissions and owners.

AUTHDIR            gdm  gdm 0711     /var/gdm
LOGDIR             root gdm 0711     /var/log/gdm
WORKINGDIR         gdm  gdm ? (1770) /var/lib/gdm (home of gdm)
GDM_XAUTH_DIR      root gdm 0711     /var/run/gdm (GDM_RAN_ONCE_MARKER_DIR)
GDM_SCREENSHOT_DIR gdm  gdm 0755     /var/run/gdm/greeter

Relevant places in the code:

data/Makefile.am from line 279
daemon/main.c from line 186
daemon/gdm-launch-environment.c from line 457

And I cannot find any use use of GDM_CACHE_DIR (/var/cache/gdm). Is this directory still necessary?
Comment 1 Peter 2013-06-04 21:18:00 UTC 
I can confirm this issue for two similiar boxes with Archlinux. The package-manager "pacman" of Archlinux checks the filesystem-permissions during updates/upgrades and print a warning about this issue.
Comment 2 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-24 10:51:08 UTC 
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