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From: Hogren <hogren@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gdm fails to start
Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 15:17:41
Message-Id: b03360b8-f78b-b098-ff30-cb3a570512f3@iiiha.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] gdm fails to start by Raffaele Belardi
1 On 23/05/2017 14:44, Raffaele Belardi wrote:
2 > On Tue, 2017-05-23 at 14:05 +0200, Hogren wrote:
3 >> I suppose there is a group in /etc/groups for gdm ?
4 >>
5 >> Does your user is associate with this group ?
6 >>
7 >>
8 > Yes, there is a gdm group but my user is not part of it. I will test it
9 > later since I cannot logout right now, but where did you find a
10 > reference for this?
11 Hum, sorry it's possible that it's a mistake.
12
13 Other thing, who is the user UID=32 ?
14
15 Why it's him who try to execute systemd ?
16
17 >
18 > Searching for a reference myself, I found this not really related but
19 > interesting (https://help.gnome.org/admin/gdm/stable/security.html.en):
20 >
21 > "The only special privilege the "gdm" user requires is the
22 > ability to read and write Xauth files to the <var>/run/gdm
23 > directory. The <var>/run/gdm directory should have root:gdm ownership
24 > and 1777 permissions."
25 >
26 > My /var/run/gdm has different permissions:
27 >
28 > drwx--x--x 3 root gdm 60 May 23 10:19 gdm
29 >
30 > I did not change or create this directory so it must be the default
31 > created by the ebuild. Can anyone confirm that with these permissions
32 > gdm works correctly?
33 >
34 > raffaele
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39 Hogren

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Re: [gentoo-user] gdm fails to start Raffaele Belardi <raffaele.belardi@××.com>