Attachment 4514 Details for Bug 11643 – Reviewed dconfsu patch

[patch] Reviewed dconfsu patch

dconf-0.14.1-mga-dconfsu.patch (text/plain), 850 bytes, created by Atilla ÖNTAŞ on 2013-11-17 15:33:14 CET

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Creator: Atilla ÖNTAŞ

Created: 2013-11-17 15:33:14 CET

Size: 850 bytes

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obsolete

diff -Naur a/shm/dconf-shm.c b/shm/dconf-shm.c
--- a/shm/dconf-shm.c	2013-03-14 20:27:40.000000000 +0200
+++ b/shm/dconf-shm.c	2013-11-17 16:08:44.048343098 +0200
@@ -33,7 +33,16 @@
   static gchar *shmdir;
 
   if (g_once_init_enter (&shmdir))
-    g_once_init_leave (&shmdir, g_build_filename (g_get_user_runtime_dir (), "dconf", NULL));
+    /* if user is root, he has the ability to overwrite the other users'
+     dconf runtime directory, hence hanging their sessions, despite
+     the 0700 permissions. Make root always use his home dir instead
+     of the common runtime one.
+   */
+
+    if (getuid != 0)
+        g_once_init_leave (&shmdir, g_build_filename (g_get_user_runtime_dir (), "dconf", NULL));
+    else
+        g_once_init_leave (&shmdir, g_build_filename (g_get_home_dir (), ".cache", "dconf", NULL));
 
   return shmdir;
 }

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