On Tue, 7 May 2013 16:26, Raymond Wooninck
Hi,
An old issue with KDM got resolved recently and now the KDM Displaymanager is running under the userid KDM instead of the old time favorite root.
This seems to fail as that access to certain directories are not granted as that those have been setup very restrictive. One of these directories are %{_localstatedir}/lib/xdm/authdir which comes with the xdm package.
Is it indeed correct that root is the only user allowed to access this directory or can we make it looser and allow that users like kdm, gdm, etc can access them ?
On this topic, but broader: Just why isn't there a generic user for all DisplayManagers? User lightdm, kdm, gdm, shit-the-fuck-dm does NOT make any sense in terms of longterm ease-of-maintainability. Are there machines out there whre more than one DM runs at once? To stop this cluster-bug-fuck we need either a group "displaymanager" where ALL dm-users are members of, or ONE generic user "displaymanager" Please, let sense and maintainability prevail. - Yamaban. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org