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Bug#66549: marked as done (xserver-common: Error message, server socket directory has suspicious permissions, needs clarification)

Your message dated Mon, 30 Sep 2019 20:45:48 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#66549: Processed: unarchiving 66549, reopening 66549
has caused the Debian Bug report #66549,
regarding xserver-common: Error message, server socket directory has suspicious permissions, needs clarification
to be marked as done.

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Package: xserver-common
Version: 3.3.6-8
Severity: wishlist

The xserver-wrapper program has a check in main() for the permissions
on the server socket directory.  The warning doesn't tell the name of
the directory where these permissions are found.  On receiving this
message, I had to grep strings in the likely programs until I found
the one printing the message, b) search the .dsc files to find the
source archive responsible for the errant program, c) grep through the
diff files to find the error string, and d) read the code to discover
the name of the directory that it was complaining about.  While I do
this sort of thing all day long, others....

For some reason, the /tmp/.X11-unix directory was owned by my personal
group on my machine.  I cannot explain this since I've never had to
know about this directory. 

Simply reporting the name of the socket directory would be a big help.


-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.2
Kernel Version: Linux florence 2.2.13 #1 Wed Feb 9 22:15:04 PST 2000 i686 unknown

Versions of the packages xserver-common depends on:
ii  libc6               2.1.3-10            GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone data
ii  makedev             2.3.1-44            Creates special device files in /dev.
ii  xfree86-common      3.3.6-8             X Window System (XFree86) infrastructure

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On 2014-10-26 19:27 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:

> On 2014-10-26 15:51 +0100, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
>
>> Processing commands for control@bugs.debian.org:
>>
>>> unarchive 66549
>> Bug #66549 {Done: branden@indy.progenylinux.com (Branden Robinson)}
>> [xserver-common] xserver-common: Error message, server socket
>> directory has suspicious permissions, needs clarification
>> Unarchived Bug 66549
>>> reopen 66549
>> Bug #66549 {Done: branden@indy.progenylinux.com (Branden Robinson)}
>> [xserver-common] xserver-common: Error message, server socket
>> directory has suspicious permissions, needs clarification
>> Bug reopened
>> Ignoring request to alter fixed versions of bug #66549 to the same values previously set
>>> thanks
>> Stopping processing here.
>
> If you reopen an archived bug, I would expect a followup message
> explaining the action, especially when the bug is 14 years old.  Or did
> you mean some other bug with an extra digit in its number?

No reply in five years, belatedly I am closing the bug again.

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