Bug#265920: marked as done (kdm 3.3 is deleting /var/run/xdmctl (causes problem under selinux))
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From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>
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Subject: kdm 3.3 is deleting /var/run/xdmctl (causes problem under selinux)
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the directory is being deleted and recreated.
whilst this makes it nice and easy for dealing with sockets in it,
it makes for an impossible situation for selinux.
the issue is that kdm will have to be given both unlink and write access
to /var/run, in order for /var/run/xdmctl to be deleted and recreated.
neither of these things are desirable.
this behaviour was not present in kdm 3.2.X.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux highfield 2.6.7-selinux1 #4 Fri Aug 6 10:18:54 BST 2004 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
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* Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton [Sun, 15 Aug 2004 19:36:19 +0100]:
> the directory is being deleted and recreated.
> whilst this makes it nice and easy for dealing with sockets in it,
> it makes for an impossible situation for selinux.
> the issue is that kdm will have to be given both unlink and write access
> to /var/run, in order for /var/run/xdmctl to be deleted and recreated.
> neither of these things are desirable.
> this behaviour was not present in kdm 3.2.X.
you have two options:
# touch /var/run/xdmctl/.keep
kdm will refrain from unlinking the directory, then (checked).
set, in /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc, FifoDir to some directory which you don't
mind being created and unlinked on each kdm start-stop cycle. e.g.
FifoDir=/tmp/xdmctl.
I'm closing this bug, since I can't see why at least one of these
options won't work for you.
thanks, and please write back if this doesn't solve your problem,
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