[K12OSN] Re: K12ltsp login

[Dan Young]

2009/1/14 Bob Mead <bmead at lane.k12.or.us>:
> 2009/1/14 Bob Mead <bmead at lane.k12.or.us>:
>
>> > I'm working on a new k12ltsp 5EL installation. So far I have the server
>> > loaded, its mounting users' /home dirs from a remote machine via nfs,
>> >  authenticating via our remote ldap server (FINALLY!!!, thanks Dan and
>> > others) and now when I login as a user I get "User's $Home/.dmrc file is
>> > being ignored (etc)" I googled the answer to this error and found that I
>> > need to login as me and chmod the permissions to 644. I tried to do this
>>
>
> Try adding this to the [security] stanza of /etc/gdm/custom.conf:
>
> RelaxPermissions=1
>
> Might also try this in /etc/gdm/custom.conf:
>
> CheckDirOwner=false
>
> Do you find any .dmrc files with this command?
>
> updatedb && locate .dmrc
>
>
> Dan Young <dyoung at mesd.k12.or.us>
> Multnomah ESD - Technology Services
> 503-257-1562
>
> Dan:
> I tried adding the Relax line and restarting gdm - did not fix the problem.
> I added the CheckDir line and again restarted gdm  (using gdm stop and gdm
> restart - both of which return "GDM already running. Aborting!" so its
> probably not working. I ran the update & locate - it found a large number of
> .dmrc files all except mine being in the user's /home directory. Mine is
> located in /oldhome and it will not let me copy or move it, seemingly no
> matter what I do to the permissions or ownership - either as myself or as
> root. Any further thoughts on what I might try?

How about RelaxPermissions=2?

gdm-restart as root again.

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Dan Young <dyoung at mesd.k12.or.us>
Multnomah ESD - Technology Services
503-257-1562