cant use x or gdm with encfs

[jens_acamedia]

i am able to login fine with my test account but am unable to start x
because of a failure to lock ICEauthority.

i use drop_permissions like you shoud and have confirmed that it works - .ICEauthority is created as owned by user test...but every time i get the error that i cant lock it...

  - i have allow_other, default_permissions, user=test2 listed as mount options...

when i export ICEauthority=/tmp/.ICEauthorit-$USER
i can start x...but still no go for gdm...

shouldnt lock files work without needing these hacks to put them in /tmp?

would be grateful for help...im on ubuntu dapper...

[mungewell (simon-mungewell)]

What parameters did you use when creating the enfcs filesystem. Some options prevent creating hardlinks in the filesystem, which may be required by ICEauth.

See:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libpam-encfs/+bug/50520

Mungewell.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Just a note that the default intrepid and jaunty encrypted ~/Private and ~ work fine with available display managers (and thus X Window System)

[Lionel Dricot (ploum-deactivatedaccount)]

Can this bug still be reproduced under 8.10 ?