GNU bug report logs - #37423
Changing the login service from GDM to SLiM and then back to GDM causes a really bad loop

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Message #32 received at 37423 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Timothy Sample <samplet <at> ngyro.com>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Gábor Boskovits <boskovits <at> gmail.com>,
 37423 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#37423: Changing the login service from GDM to SLiM and then
 back to GDM causes a really bad loop
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 09:25:55 -0400

Hi Ludo and Gábor,

Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Hi Gábor,
>
> Gábor Boskovits <boskovits <at> gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> Couldn't we simply do what the fix does: ensuring the owner of
>> the files under “/var/lib/gdm” is the current “gdm” user?
>
> Hey you’re right, I was not approaching it from the right angle.
>
> Here’s a patch that does that.  Thoughts?

LGTM!  Though I don’t have a chance to test it at the moment, so all I
can really say is that it makes sense and I didn’t see any typos.  :)


-- Tim

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