On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Gandhi woulda smacked you wrote:

>On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Paul Goyette wrote:
>
># On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Paul Goyette wrote:
># ...determine the user's .Xauthority file name.  I guess they never
># expected people to log in on multiple machines simultaneously!  :)
># 
>
>Actually, it seems they do -- I don't have any problems with this at work
>under the Solaris logins.
>
>...but maybe it's not doing true X authority either.

I think it is.  We have > 100 Sun workstations (all using the same NFS-mounted
/home file store), and if you log in to several of them simultaneously
the xauth cookies get *merged* into your ~/.Xauthority file, so that you
can run commands with DISPLAY pointed to any of them.  With some
implementations of xdm, the (stale) cookies used to remain in ~/.Xauthority
indefinitely (i.e. until they were overwritten the next time you logged into
the same machine).  However, since we upgraded to CDE I believe the CDE
full-screen login removes the relevant cookie when you log out of a machine.

Could it be something to do with NetBSD not really implementing NFS file
locking?  Or could the attribute-caching parameters on the NFS mounts be
wrong?


Roger

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