Re: .ICEauthority permissions

From: Youssef Makki (bugzilla_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 03/08/04

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    And no ideas as to why permissions would change on it to root and cause
    the mentioned problems? I've never used X as root, not that it's related
    here anyway.

    On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 13:58, Ron Herardian wrote:
    > Yes, the file is owned by the user in whose home directory it is created and the group is set to the user's primary group. This file holds the user's MIT magic cookie. "The MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE protocol allows Xdm to create a hard-to-guess token that is only readable by the user account which
    > successfully logged in via Xdm. It uses the Unix file system access control to protect the token. The user can copy this token to the user's home directories on other systems to allow clients on those hosts to connect to the X server." [http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-7/node90.html]
    >
    > Ron
    >
    > Youssef Makki wrote:
    > >
    > > Got a small problem with that file in ~/, but before I describe I'll see
    > > if I'm on the right track. That file's owner should be the user in who's
    > > homedir it is sitting, and not root.root right?
    > > Something is changing permissions, if that's not supposed to happen.
    > >
    > > The last problem I had was X would not start at all saying it could not
    > > find any screens (iirc), but I think it was specific to Gnome, because
    > > startxfce worked like a charm. The solution was to delete .ICEauthority
    > > and 2 other ~/.ICE.. files which I honestly don't remember, but also had
    > > root.root 600 permissions on them. Any ideas/input here?
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