the "Your $HOME/.dmrc file has incorrect permissions" story

[Phillip Susi]

This message has been annoying me on dapper lately too.  I guess I'll 
have to check those permissions when I get home.

albi wrote:
> 
> on a few breezy-installations the following error appears :
> 
> "Your $HOME/.dmrc file has incorrect permissions and is being ignored.
> This prevents the default session and language from being saved. File 
> should be owned by user and have 644 permissions."
> 
> this is however complete nonsense because the file has already 644 
> permissions (and if you remove ~/.dmrc, then it still complains)
> 
> looking at this :
> http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/lofiversion/index.php/t27048.html
> 
> i just found out that this error indeed stops showing up after changing 
> my home-dir permissions to 755, however changing it to 751 does *not* 
> stop this error-message showing up :-(
> 
> i find this a completely unacceptable way of encouraging 755 permissions 
> on home-dirs in a network
> 
> ...is there another work-around ?
> 
>