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cant login in gdm without removing the file ~./ICEauthority

Bug #26222 reported by pablovp on 2005-11-26

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #8785: kdeinit changes ownership of ~/.ICEauthority if run via (a kde program via) sudo. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Ubuntu	Invalid	Medium	Unassigned

A lot of people have problems to login on GDM because of wrong permissions in a
file called .ICEauthority in their home directory.

There is a lot of threads on ubuntu foruns describing the problem, here is a
link of one of those:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=49998&highlight=ICEauthority

To have a sucessfull login the user must delete the file.

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Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis) wrote on 2005-11-26:

That only happens if you run (buggy) GUI applications via sudo that are not
meant to be run via sudo.

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pablovp (pablovp86) wrote on 2005-11-29:

This bug is not invalid.

Its a duplicate from bug #8785.

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pablovp (pablovp86) wrote on 2005-11-30:

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 8785.

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