Non root users account logins terminating within 10 seconds

Aaron Gray angray at beeb.net
Sun Sep 10 22:06:11 UTC 2006


Vivek J. Patankar wrote:
> On 9/8/06, Aaron Gray <angray at beeb.net> wrote:
>> Just logged in to be told my account had terminated within 10 seconds.
>> Root is okay but new accounts terminate.
>
> I had that problem once with FC2. I noticed that when it happened
> whenever the owner:group of the .Xauthority file changed to root:root.
> That happened whever I launched an X application (usually K3B) as root
> from gnome-terminal. chown'ing the file back to default user:group
> fixed the problem. This *might* be the problem. The default
> permissions for the file are as below. I'm using FC5 (x86_64) now.
>
> [veejay at marvin ~]$ ll .Xauthority
> -rw------- 1 veejay users 125 Sep  9 12:36 .Xauthority
>
>
.Xauthority is missing from all non root and new user accounts.

Looks like a reinstall job !

Many thanks,

Aaron




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