bug #855773 was similar and closed, Robert wrote "For the recent security fix LightDM has to drop privileges to write the authority file, but I guess it could be set wrong." and "I'm going to close this. I think lightdm can't do anything sane in this case. Thanks for the bug report!"
So it might not be a lightdm issue since the owner doesn't match what lightdm would set? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/871667 Title: .Xauthority sometimes owned by root, which blocks login To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/871667/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
