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Bug 768247 - Starting the system makes group ownership on /var/log/gdm not match what is expected in the RPM database
Starting the system makes group ownership on /var/log/gdm not match what is e...
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gdm
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.30.x
Other Linux
: Normal major
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Assigned To: GDM maintainers
GDM maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2016-06-30 14:40 UTC by jasonricles
Modified: 2018-05-24 11:24 UTC
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Description jasonricles 2016-06-30 14:40:19 UTC 
When starting up the RHEL 6.8 OS the /usr/sbin/gdm-binary calls chown and changes the group owner of /var/log/gdm to gdm. When you check against the expected group owner of /var/log/gdm in the RPM database the check fails since root is the expected group owner according to the RPM database.

1. Boot up the operating system 
2. Run rpm -Va | grep '^......G'
3. /var/log/gdm will appear as not matching the expected group in the RPM database.
4. Run rpm -qf /var/log/gdm
5. rpm --setugids [output from step 4]
6. Restart operating system
7. Run rpm -Va | grep '^......G'
8. /var/log/gdm will appear as not matching the expected group in the RPM database.

The actual result is that gdm is again the group owner after reboot.

The expected results are that the group should be root after reboot on the /var/log/gdm directory after running the command to reset to the group owner.

Build Wed 15 Oct 2014 05:20:09 PM ED on RHEL 6.8
Comment 1 jasonricles 2016-08-04 14:21:26 UTC 
Has there been any work done, or was this bug even looked at?
Comment 2 Ray Strode [halfline] 2016-08-04 17:25:46 UTC 
So in upstream versions of gdm /var/log/gdm is less important, since log messages go to the journal.  We should probably just drop the directory entirely.
Comment 3 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-24 11:24:26 UTC 
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