the "Your $HOME/.dmrc file has incorrect permissions" story

[albi]

On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 23:49:18 +0100
Joyce Markoll <j.markoll at free.fr> wrote:


> > > ...is there another work-around ?
> I'm not sure what you want. 751 would be a nonsense. Have access to
> all but not be able to read, or even write, what for ? did you try
> 700 permissions ? 750 ? 
> then it would have (more) sense, and you'd be
> as user the only one that can do all in this file, including destroy
> it if you decide it. (and as belonging to your group, a little less
> if the '5' applies for the group. In my system, it's 755. I'm not on
> an enterprise network, although. 

exactly, do you want to give *read* access to everyone else you're
sharing your /home with via NFS ?

the 755 is the traditional way of having the permissions for /home/*
with the idea that all users can share their files, but i'm not always
happy with that idea

but i think i know what the problem is with the ~/.dmrc ..
gdm starts as root, and in my setup root has no access at all to the
NFS-mounted home-dirs

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