Bug 15617

Summary:	xguest not working with lxdm, homedirectory owned by root
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Marc Krämer <mageia>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Nicolas Salguero <nicolas.salguero>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	MGA5TOO
Source RPM:	lxdm-0.5.0-3.mga5	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Marc Krämer 2015-04-01 23:16:19 CEST

if you login as xguest, you get a user directory, which should contain /etc/skel and should be writeable by the user xguest.

My terminal is executed as rbash - but as far as "ls -la" tells the home-directory is owned by root and creating a file fails. Even no skel files exist. In lxde the menu is empty, and most programs complain they can't write files to the home-directory.

Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Jani Välimaa 2015-04-02 09:52:30 CEST

Looks similar to bug 5980.

Which display manager are you using? Can't reproduce the issue with lightdm (+MATE/Xfce).

Source RPM: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/repo/pkgs/xguest/ => xguest-1.0.10-12.mga5

Comment 2 Marc Krämer 2015-04-02 10:54:53 CEST

tested with lxdm, lxde & mate as desktops.

I didn't know this depends on the display manager...

Jani Välimaa 2015-04-02 14:46:14 CEST

Summary: xguest not working anymore, homedirectory owned by root => xguest not working with lxdm, homedirectory owned by root

Jani Välimaa 2015-04-02 15:59:05 CEST

Source RPM: xguest-1.0.10-12.mga5 => lxdm-0.5.0-3.mga5

Comment 3 Samuel Verschelde 2015-06-06 01:12:23 CEST

Assigning to lxdm maintainer.

Assignee: bugsquad => nicolas.salguero
Whiteboard: (none) => MGA5TOO

Nicolas Salguero 2015-06-21 15:03:57 CEST

Status: NEW => ASSIGNED

Comment 4 Marc Krämer 2023-04-28 14:04:25 CEST

old

Status: ASSIGNED => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD