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List:       kde-multimedia
Subject:    Re: mcop
From:       Stefan Westerfeld <stefan () space ! twc ! de>
Date:       2001-12-17 14:33:11
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   Hi!

On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 04:51:29PM -0700, John Scott wrote:
> I've incurred an error message with artsd on my Mandrake Linux 8.1
> system that baffles me. I'm hoping you can help.  The message is
> "mcop-john is not owned by user".  I'm "john" and  I'm both the user and
> 
> owner of that directory???? Any ideas?

Are you sure your uid and the owner of the directory are the same?

stefan@stefan:~/src/kdelibs/arts/mcop$ id
uid=1000(stefan) gid=1000(stefan) groups=1000(stefan),24(cdrom),25(floppy),29(audio)
stefan@stefan:~/src/kdelibs/arts/mcop$ ls -nld /tmp/mcop-stefan/
drwx------    3 1000     1000         4096 Dec 17 15:01 /tmp/mcop-stefan/

I don't understand how this check can fail. The code looks like:

// mcoputils.cc: MCOPUtils::createFilePath(string name)

    /** check that /tmp/mcop-<username>/ is a secure temporary dir **/
    struct stat st;
    if(lstat(tmpdir.c_str(),&st) != 0)
        arts_fatal("can't stat %s (%s)", tmpdir.c_str(),strerror(errno));

    if (st.st_uid != getuid ())
        arts_fatal("%s is not owned by user", tmpdir.c_str());

	[...]

Which looks right to me...?

   Cu... Stefan
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