[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Reinhard Katzmann) writes:
> I have used the 7.1 version of gdm and just recently installed
> the new version from cooker, together with an update of pwdb
> and pam, since gdm needed the -devel packages of these.
>
> After that I was (and still somehow am) unable to login.
> I searched several hours in the source code and then found
> what might be the problem:
>
> 1) If I change my .Xauthority file to world writeable I can log
> in (this is not what I want though). I can not login even
> if I add the group of this group to the gdm user, so probably,=20
> its not a group related security problem.
>
> 2) The problem is in the file daemon/auth.c, in the gdm_auth_purge
> function. I have added several ouput messages (debug option seems
> not to work with gdm.. at least not the same way as xdm), to find
> it out (original file line 367):
>
> gdm_error( _("freopen...\n"));
> af =3D freopen (d->userauth, "w", af);
>
> if (!af) {
> XauUnlockAuth (d->userauth);
> gdm_error( _("af could not be opened...\n"));
> return;
> }
>
> The first message appears in the log file, the second does not.
> XauLockAuth locks the .Xauthority and creates two additional
> files. Both of these are created in my home dir, but only with
> 0 (zero) size. XauUnlockAuth seems to fail and either gdm
> crashes here or it simply ends (I don't know how to determine
> this).
>
I cannot reproduce the bug. I'll do further research, but it seems strange.
--
dam's
