On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 15:16 +1030, Tim wrote: >> Tim: >> >>> What's the permissions of the /tmp directory? I've seen that sort >> >>> of thing in prior releases, because there was a problem there. >> >>> >> >>> [tim@suspishus ~]$ ls -dl /tmp >> >>> drwxrwxrwt 53 root root 4096 2009-03-03 01:01 /tmp >> >> >> Craig White: >> > since user 'root' is OK, I suspect that you probably are having an >> > issue with older settings and you can temporarily move them out of the >> > way... >> >> Just going off on a tangent - when I noticed this issue, several Fedora >> releases ago, thanks to the /tmp permissions that I mention, root could >> still log in (graphically), but users couldn't. I expect because root >> could still create the files it wanted in the way that it wanted them. > ---- > and it made a lot of sense when you suggested it but he verified that > up-thread. > > Craig What about home directory user permissions? Doesn't the X Windows needs a working user directory? I may be myself going on a tangent, but I've never thought of this one: does it make a difference whether the home dirs are in a raid partition, a volume, an NFS mount or local home dir? ~af -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
