Re: Bug#354523: xserver-xorg: .bashrc can cause Xsession error on login

[Eugene Konev <ejka@imfi.kspu.ru>]

reassign 354523 kdm
thanks

At Sun, 26 Feb 2006 21:05:33 -0600,
Adam Porter wrote:
> 
> On Sunday 26 February 2006 20:45, Eugene Konev wrote:
> > At Sun, 26 Feb 2006 20:10:43 -0600,
> >
> > Adam Porter wrote:
> > > Package: xserver-xorg
> > > Version: 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4
> > > Severity: minor
> > >
> > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > > Hash: SHA1
> > >
> > >
> > > For quite a while now, every time I logged in with a certain user, an X
> > > dialog box would pop up that said that there were too many arguments
> > > provided, and that it was falling back to the default session.  I'd click
> > > "okay," and then it would happen one more time, and after dismissing it
> > > KDE would log in fine.
> > >
> > > Finally I used rgrep to track down that error message, and added a line
> > > in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/20x11-common_process-args to write the arguments
> > > it was receiving to a file.  Then I checked that file, and found that it
> > > was receiving "bell-style none" arguments.  I found those in my .bashrc
> > > file, above these lines:
> >
> > Are you using kdm?
> 
> Yes.

This is a bug in kdm's Xsession script, which sources $HOME/.bashrc
and then /etc/X11/Xsession. Reassigning...

Probably severity of this bug should be raised as it allows any user
to override system policy through .bashrc.