Greetings, I'm running redhat 9 and I'm having a problem of something or some proccess changing the ownership of /home/user/.ICEauthority to root. Of course when this happens DCOPserver is kaputt and the user can't log on(gnome or kde). When the user tries to log on it gives him an error saying somthing like xsession lasted less than 10 seconds and in the detail section of the error it says the following: Warning **unable to read ICE Authority. The work around I've been using for this is to chown /home/user/.ICEauthority back to the user. This works for a couple of log-in's but then for some reason this file reverts back to root ownership. I've tried to add "Defaults always_set_home" to /etc/sudoers, but this didn't solve the problem. Does anyone knows what's going on here? Any suggestions? Any useful links? I've searched and haven't found much info on this problem. Cheers -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list