From Bugzilla Helper: 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> Additional info:
Closing really old bug