damned gdm permissions

[yazdzik]

Dear Friends,

After being accustomed to the face of LN for so many years, I just could not get used to kde. I am running grml, a sort of boutique debian sid, with the gnome desktop.

Now, I need every box on my home network to be able to write to every other box, without any issues, no logins, no paranoia, just from any box to any box, 777 all the way. If I work on a file on my laptop, it has to be abled to be saved anywhere, and vice versa. Please no lectures on why I should prefer better security. I need convenience, and am well aware of any issues.

Now, gdm demands ~/.dmrc to have permissions of 644. No issue with this, but also requires a "secure" home folder. That means, if I create a file on the computer in the bedroom, because I get a phone call, and wish to save it to /laptop/home/yazdzik, I cannot. This cost me ten minutes of fussing yesterday, ten minutes I do not have.

How can I have gnome as myu desktop, but with the home folder writable by anyone on the network?

All samba permissions are correct, so there is no issue there. Running the kde desktop, other than a "insecure home folder" error when using apt, there is no issue if I reset permissions to 777.

Any solutions?


Best,
M

[jjmac]

>>
How can I have gnome as myu desktop, but with the home folder writable by anyone on the network?
>>

Get rid of gdm and boot to the console, logging in there, then running startx. I'm definetly no fan of display managers. I find them far to restrictive. And a damn nuscience when it comes to debugging boot issues.

You could also try creating a common group and then add all the appropriate people concerned to it. Effecting a common read/write permission that way.

Not sure how you can get a round the loging in stage though. Maybe a script run from /etc/init.d/local might be able to auto the login process. But i haven't experimented myself with that. So can only speculate on it.


jm

[yazdzik]

thanks - creature of habit that I am, I forgot about startx - works fine, plus none of the extra config stuff that makes life slooooow.
,
m
Best

[jpaulb]

Dear Friends,

After being accustomed to the face of LN for so many years, I just could not get used to kde. I am running grml, a sort of boutique debian sid, with the gnome desktop.

Now, I need every box on my home network to be able to write to every other box, without any issues, no logins, no paranoia, just from any box to any box, 777 all the way. If I work on a file on my laptop, it has to be abled to be saved anywhere, and vice versa. Please no lectures on why I should prefer better security. I need convenience, and am well aware of any issues.

Now, gdm demands ~/.dmrc to have permissions of 644. No issue with this, but also requires a "secure" home folder. That means, if I create a file on the computer in the bedroom, because I get a phone call, and wish to save it to /laptop/home/yazdzik, I cannot. This cost me ten minutes of fussing yesterday, ten minutes I do not have.

How can I have gnome as myu desktop, but with the home folder writable by anyone on the network?

All samba permissions are correct, so there is no issue there. Running the kde desktop, other than a "insecure home folder" error when using apt, there is no issue if I reset permissions to 777.

Any solutions?


Best,
M

Are you writing the same file to every box, or does a selected file get written to a specific box?

I thinking along the line of data sync. Would it not be simpler to have one box with all your files on it, then you can sync each box to the central source, instead of having a number of files in various stages of completion spread over a number of boxes that may or may not be online at that instance?

I have been running thin client, then when a laptop goes in the field it is rebooted for a few minutes, using its own copy of Linux, while Unision syncs it withthe files on the server

[jjmac]

Howdy,

thanks - creature of habit that I am, I forgot about startx - works fine, plus none of the extra config stuff that makes life slooooow.
,
m
Best


Yes, it gives more control.

Ii think display managers are fine if a person wants to restrict access to a box. Such as one that has public access ... in a shop, or some other public place. But otherwise, they just get in the way. Especially if you have a new monitor/card etc installed and X needs some reconfiguring.

I used to invoke a custom script which would allow me to select a window manager out of a few choices so there wan't any thing to be missed there.

Plus ... i quite like whatching the boot scroll by, rather than the 'watch the watch' company logo splash thing :)


jm