The strange thing to me is that before the encrypted home is mounted, $HOME is perm'd 500. So not even the owner should be able to write to it. This is by design to prevent you from accidentally writing cleartext data to your home.
Even though that's the case, the failed lightdm login process creates two files in the unmounted, read-only home: 1) .dmrc 2) .Xauthority This seems to me like lightdm is doing some funny business as root, and then chowning this files back over to the user? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/823775 Title: Cannot login: could not update ICEauthority file .ICEauthority To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ecryptfs-utils/+bug/823775/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
