Bug 135181

Summary: KDM cannot read user face pictures
Product: kdm Reporter: Artem S. Tashkinov <aros>
Component: generalAssignee: kdm bugs tracker <kdm-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Compiled Sources   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description Artem S. Tashkinov 2006-10-06 09:07:30 UTC
Version:           3.5.4 (using KDE KDE 3.5.4)
Installed from:    Compiled From Sources
Compiler:          GCC 4.1.1 vanilla
OS:                Linux

KDM cannot read user face pictures on my system and here's a strace log of that:

5788  open("/home/artem/.face.icon", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
5788  open("/home/artem/.face", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
5788  open("/home/guest/.face.icon", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
5788  open("/home/guest/.face", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)

My home dirs permissions are set to 700, only if I set them to 701 then KDM works (and I don't like such a solution). 

This bug is related to bug number 110797 but I cannot understand how the latter was resolved.
Comment 1 Oswald Buddenhagen 2006-10-07 12:27:14 UTC
the resolution is that you can choose between a liberal permission setup and administratively assigned pictures. anything else does not make sense from a security point of view.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 110797 ***