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Re: Larvnet design discussion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Thu Aug 7 13:23:36 2008
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
Cc: Timothy G Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>, athena10@mit.edu
From: ucko@debian.org (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:22:50 -0400
In-Reply-To: <489A7D62.5050801@mit.edu> (Greg Hudson's message of "Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:43:14 -0400")
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Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> Checking for the existence of /var/lib/gdm/*.Xservers appears to be
> pretty robust, but can only be performed as root.
On Debian, and AFAICT Ubuntu, the permissions aren't quite that restrictive:
$ ls -ld /var/lib/gdm
drwxr-x--- 4 gdm gdm 152 2006-06-24 12:30 /var/lib/gdm/
As such, configuring inetd to run busyd as nobody.gdm should suffice.
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