Description of problem: GDM still shows the generic icon, instead of the face selected. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gdm-2.17.8-1.fc7 How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. Go to 'About Me' 2. Select a random face 3. Log out Actual results: Still get generic white person logo. Expected results: A baseball. Or a chess piece. Or a duck! Additional info: Restarting gdm entirely (telinit 3 ; telinit 5) doesn't help.
As a data point, I tried changing the default face in gdmsetup, and still got the generic icon.
what is the output of ls -ld ~ ~/.face ?
[notting@nostromo: ~]$ ls -ld ~ ~/.face drwxr-xr-x 154 notting notting 77824 2007-04-06 01:21 /home/notting -rw-rw-r-- 1 notting notting 3034 2007-04-06 01:24 /home/notting/.face
The face needs to have permission 755 IIRC - does that work?
This, btw, looks like a dup of bug 236393.
755? Not 644???
755 works. So this bug should either be against: 1) gdm, for requiring 755 (when 0644 should be fine) or: 2) gnome-about-me - for writing them as 0644 by default
(In reply to comment #7) > 755 works. So this bug should either be against: > > 1) gdm, for requiring 755 (when 0644 should be fine) This, IIRC, is a feature to require consent from the user that it's fine to display his face which originates from a personal file in his home directory. ICBW, and yes, I do think this is a weird security requirement. Also, f-u-s-a and the screensaver do the same check IIRC. > 2) gnome-about-me - for writing them as 0644 by default This is what we should be fixing.
(In reply to comment #8) > (In reply to comment #7) > > 755 works. So this bug should either be against: > > > > 1) gdm, for requiring 755 (when 0644 should be fine) > > This, IIRC, is a feature to require consent from the user that it's fine to > display his face which originates from a personal file in his home directory. > ICBW, and yes, I do think this is a weird security requirement. Is this documented somewhere? (This seems like a better job for selinux or similar.)
(In reply to comment #9) > Is this documented somewhere? Don't know; I remember googling for it a while back and found some fragments; but I can't find this right now. > (This seems like a better job for selinux or similar.) No, it's completely broken to retrieve the users face from the home directory because it means you can't see other users faces from f-u-s-a. It should probably originate from the same place as the _rest_ of you account details. Probably libuser should provide get/set functionality. Another option is to have a system-wide D-Bus service. Yada yada yada.
gnome-about-me has been fixed to use 755 now. Time to close this, I think.
Hi, IMHO the GDM theme on Fedora 7 test 3 was much more user-friendly and looked nicer than one I see in Fedora 7 test 4. The theme hasn't changed but the icon for "face browser" had. Not beside user name there is some strange icon with a question mark on the face which looks odious to me. It doesn't look inviting, and doesn't give me the welcome feeling that a login page should be about. And comments? Or is it just me? :)