R. Samuel Jose, Jr. wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 16:07 -0500, Mario Lombardo wrote:
>
>>I upgraded a system from RedHat 9.0 to Fedora Core 2. Although I could log
>>into the X console with XFree86 as any user, I cannot do this now after the
>>upgrade to Xorg. In fact, only root is allowed to do so.
>>
>>What happened, and how do I go about fixing this?
>>
>>/mario
>>
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> I've seen similar behavior on one of my Gentoo boxes after I update
> Xorg. For some reason it sets the ownership of non-root user home
> directories to root so Gnome can't read my config files when I log in as
> a non-root user and I get shuffled back to the login screen. When I set
> the permissions back to what they should be, I can login again.
>
> Not sure why it only happens on one box.
Not sure about FC2 or Gentoo, but you folks may want to check the
/etc/security settings. Among other things, the settings there will
automatically reset permissions of device files, mounts, directories,
etc... In Fedora Core 3 I had to tweak a few entries to allow my NVidia
drivers to work after a reboot.
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