can't login after using k3bsetup

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Mon Oct 4 17:48:23 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 05:31 -0700, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 01:10:08PM +0100, Benjamin Edwards wrote:
> > If Gnome douse not use ICE how come its configuration causes a problem during login?
> 
> Probably just attempts to initialise it.  However, to the best of my
> knowledge, GNOME does not use ICE for its IPC.  To be fair, having a
> .ICEauthority owned by someone else is a pretty big security risk.

Though having it owned by root shouldn't be...

I /think/ that the session manager can use ICE. I don't know if it ever
does under normal usage conditions. 

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org





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