This has been brought up so many times now, that I wonder why it does not get 
fixed? It really is trivial to do so?

Danny




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Subject: [Cooker] [Bug 1280] [XFree86-libs] /tmp/.ICE-unix/ not owned by root
Date: Sunday 23 February 2003 19:02
From: ndeb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1280





------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED]  2003-02-23 18:29 -------
The same bug is there for mandrake-9.1rc1. If the libICE bug that creates
/tmp/.ICE-unix with the wrong ownership/group cannot be removed, I suggest a
workaround in /etc/rc.sysinit, where the lines:

# Delete ICE locks
rm -rf /tmp/.ICE-unix

should be replaced with:

# Delete ICE locks
chown root:root /tmp/.ICE-unix
rm -rf /tmp/.ICE-unix/*





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assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
status: UNCONFIRMED
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description:
Changing the ownership to root:root does not help as after a reboot, the
 script /etc/rc.sysinit deletes this directory by this command "rm -rf
 /tmp/.ICE-unix". So when /tmp/.ICE-unix/ is recreated it has ownership of
 the non-root user. According to
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2001-September/msg00176.html ,
 this adds 5 secs to the startup of the desktop (KDE, GNOME) and is also a
 security risk. Also, the page
 https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/enigma-list/2002-June/014027.html
 claims this to be a bug of libICE (which is part of XFree86-libs). Please
 fix this so that /tmp/.ICE-unix has default ownership of root:root.

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