Bug 403873 – lxde-base/lxdm doesn't honour pam_mktemp

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

[Description Christian Apeltauer 2012-02-15 10:30:13 UTC]

When logging into a session via lxdm, pam_mktemp (included via system-auth) is not (correctly) executed: The private temp directory /tmp/.private/$USER is not created, the TMPDIR variable is set to "/tmp/.private/nobody" (in turn causing some application to fail because of missing write permission in TMPDIR). pam_mktemp works correctly when using logging in via lightdm or login on a VT.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Christian Apeltauer 2012-02-15 10:31:00 UTC]

Created attachment 302033 [details]
output of cave info lxdm

[Comment 2 Christian Apeltauer 2012-02-15 10:32:06 UTC]

Created attachment 302035 [details]
/etc/pam.d/lxdm

as installed out of the box

[Comment 3 Christian Apeltauer 2012-02-15 10:32:41 UTC]

Created attachment 302037 [details]
/etc/pam.d/system-auth

inlcudes pam_mktemp

[Comment 4 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) 2012-02-18 11:39:49 UTC]

Could you please send this bug upstream? Do you have a patch to solve this problem?

[Comment 5 Christian Apeltauer 2012-02-18 15:59:03 UTC]

I have opened a bug report upstream:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3489039&group_id=180858&atid=894869

[Comment 6 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) 2012-03-17 00:38:41 UTC]

This seems to be fixed upstream. I just need to find the right commit

[Comment 7 Vince C. 2012-04-30 08:26:39 UTC]

(In reply to comment #6)
> This seems to be fixed upstream. I just need to find the right commit

The maintainer/developer said:
> now, I try the latest pam_mktemp, it works fine on system [...]

Have I read the bug report @ sourceforge correctly or was it actually a bug in pam_mktemp ?

[Comment 8 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) 2012-05-07 09:52:56 UTC]

Yes this is what I understand