[PATCH] Don't put X11 auth file in $HOME
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| LXDE |
Unknown
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Unknown
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| lxdm (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: lxdm
This concerns lxdm 0.2.0~svn2307+
When you log in via lxdm, the X authorization file is in its default location of ~/.Xauthority. Which is fine, unless you are on a system where home directories are served out of NFS or AFS. If the home directory suddenly becomes inaccessible (whether by a file server going down, or authentication expiring in the case of AFS), then the X auth file can't be read, and then you can't even pop up an error dialog to the user.
GDM has a UserAuthDir option that lets you place the X auth file in (for example) /tmp, which works around the above problem handily. I considered adding a similar such option to lxdm, but then figured I may as well just tweak its behavior to match that of xdm (which unconditionally sets XAUTHORITY=
A patch, against the lxdm sources in the LXDE SVN tree, is attached. (The "#ifdef DEBUG" bit is just a sanity check, to ensure that g_mkstemp_full() created a file.)
Related branches
| Daniel Richard G. (skunk) wrote | #1 |
| Julien Lavergne (gilir) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in lxdm (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| tags: | added: lucid |
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #4 |
| Changed in lxdm (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Triaged → Fix Released |
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