Package: gdm3
Version: 2.30.2-4
Severity: important
It appears that my ~/.Xauthority file is being ignored with gdm3. This appears
to be an undocumented change to gdm functionality for upgrade from gdm.
It's breaking several of my ssh related scripts, since ssh is still honouring
the .Xauthority file, so I can no longer pass authority from one machine to
another. (The old x2x trick doesn't work for example:
ssh -fX myotherhost x2x -west -to :0
) without a newly required xhost + on the target machine.
Also, it seems that the xauth program doesn't want to work quite correctly-
importing authority from .Xauthority with xauth file doesn't quite take
correctly. (The above trick should, I believe, work, after I do that, but
doesn't).
These weird sideeffects of what is no doubt an attempt to tighten up security
for gdm3 are why I'm filing this as important- it's clear that either ssh and
other programs need to know about the new default in gdm3 (fun!) or gdm3
should expose a setting for the old behaviour (which it doesn't appear to,
though documentation is very very sparse at this point).
Thanks
Christian
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (700, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (101,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages gdm3 depends on:
ii adduser 3.112add and remove users and groups
ii awesome [x-window-manag 3.4.5-1 highly configurable, next generati
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.32 Debian configuration management sy
ii gconf2 2.28.1-3 GNOME configuration database syste
ii gnome-session [x-sessio 2.30.0-1 The GNOME Session Manager - GNOME
ii gnome-session-bin 2.30.0-1 The GNOME Session Manager - Minima
ii gnome-terminal [x-termi 2.30.1-1 The GNOME terminal emulator applic
ii kde-window-manager [x-w 4:4.4.4-1the KDE 4 window manager (KWin)
ii konsole [x-terminal-emu 4:4.4.4-1X terminal emulator for KDE 4
ii libart-2.0-22.3.21-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.30.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libattr11:2.4.44-2 Extended attribute shared library
ii libaudit0 1.7.13-1+b1 Dynamic library for security audit
ii libbonobo2-02.24.3-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.24.3-1 The Bonobo UI library
ii libc6 2.11.2-1 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcairo2 1.8.10-4 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libcanberra-gtk00.24-1 Gtk+ helper for playing widget eve
ii libcanberra00.24-1 a simple abstract interface for pl
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.24-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-20.86-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdevkit-power-gobject 1:0.9.4-2abstraction for power management -
ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2.1generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype62.3.11-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgconf2-4 2.28.1-3 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libglib2.0-02.24.1-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome2-0 2.30.0-1 The GNOME library - runtime files
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.30.1-1 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.20.1-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii liborbit2 1:2.14.18-0.1libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpam-modules 1.1.1-3 Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii libpam-runtime 1.1.1-3 Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii libpam0g1.1.1-3 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpanel-applet2-0 2.30.0-2 library for GNOME Panel applets
ii libpango1.0-0 1.28.1-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.96-2 PolicyKit Authorization API
ii libpolkit-gtk-1-0 0.96-2 PolicyKit GTK+ API
ii libpopt01.16-1 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii librsvg2-common 2.26.3-1 SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii libselinux1 2.0.94-1 SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii libwrap07.6.q-19 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii libx11-62:1.3.3-3X11 client-side library
ii libxau6 1:1.0.5-2X11 authorisation library
ii libxdmcp6 1:1.0.3-2X11 Display Manager Control Protoc
ii libxklavier16 5.0-2X Keyboard
