Bug 65589 - xdm is set to create files in /etc/X11/xdm/authdir/authfiles but that directory isn't apart of the package
Summary: xdm is set to create files in /etc/X11/xdm/authdir/authfiles but that directo...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: XFree86
Version: 7.3
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mike A. Harris
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-05-28 04:43 UTC by Nathan G. Grennan
Modified: 2005-10-31 22:00 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-08-20 05:33:13 UTC
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Description Nathan G. Grennan 2002-05-28 04:43:56 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.3 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020523

Description of problem:
xdm is configurated  to use /etc/X11/xdm/authdir/authfiles to write a
.Xauthority to, but /etc/X11/xdm/authdir is a symlink to ../../../var/lib/xdm
and authfiles in the directory isn't a part of any package. Yet there is
/var/lib/xdm/authdir/authdir which is part of XFree86 but doesn't appear to be used.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpm -e gdm kdebase
2. init 5
3. Login as normal user
4. run xterm
5. su - root
6. ps axw | grep \/usr\/X11R6\/bin\/X
7. ls -l /etc/X11/xdm/authdir
8. ls -R /var/lib/xdm

Actual Results:  /usr/X11R6/bin/X -auth /etc/X11/xdm/authdir/authfiles/<insert
random filename here>


lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           20 May  8 21:19 /etc/X11/xdm/authdir ->
../../../var/lib/xdm



/var/lib/xdm:
authdir  authfiles

/var/lib/xdm/authdir:

/var/lib/xdm/authfiles:
<insert random filename here>


Expected Results:  /usr/X11R6/bin/X -auth /etc/X11/xdm/authdir/authfiles/<insert
random filename here>


lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           20 May  8 21:19 /etc/X11/xdm/authdir ->
../../../var/lib/xdm



/var/lib/xdm:
authfiles

/var/lib/xdm/authfiles:
<insert random filename here>


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Comment 2 Nathan G. Grennan 2004-08-20 05:33:13 UTC
Closing really old bug


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