can't login after using k3bsetup

[Daniel Stone]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 02:08:52PM +0200, Stefan Kluth wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 12:31:02PM +0100, Benjamin Edwards wrote:
> > > So changing the ownershop and group of .ICEauthority fixes things?
> >
> > Yes; it needs to be username:username 700 for security reasons.  If you
> > run touch .ICEauthority as a user immediately before you run sudo
> > k3bsetup, it should be OK.
> 
> Another fix is to enable the root account.  When this is done I can start
> up k3bsetup from within k3b (as most users will do after they first start
> k3b), give it the root password and let it go.  It works normally and
> leaves .ICEauthority alone.
> 
> This might illuminate a wider issue with disabling the root account: it
> actually breaks applications outside of ubuntu/main.  Now ubuntu
> officially "doesn't care" as only ubuntu/main is promised to work.
> However, installing ubuntu with a working root account while still only
> advertising the "sudo" way for system administration in the documentation
> might make ubuntu/main more compatible with the rest of the universe,
> which sometimes expects a root account.  As a result there will be fewer
> users stuck completely after having foolishly run k3b(setup), which might
> be real showstopper for some.

The issue is that when you enable root, it runs with HOME=/root, as
opposed to /home/username, so you get separate .ICEauthority files.

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Daniel Stone                                        <daniel.stone at canonical.com>
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