[2830] in Release_Engineering
Re: Problem with setpag and login/xlogin
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Mon May 18 09:50:12 1992
To: Ezra Peisach <epeisach@Athena.MIT.EDU>
Cc: builder@MIT.EDU, rel-eng@MIT.EDU, "Richard Basch" <basch@MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 18 May 92 09:49:42 EDT
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@Athena.MIT.EDU>
>> The reason for this is that we don;t want the homedir to be detached if you
>> login twice. Inly the one that really did the attach should unmount.
No, that doesn't work. Imagin that I am logged in locally (xlogin),
then I dial in remotely, and notice that I am still logged in. I
don't want to be, so I kill the session_gate. My homedir is detached.
This is wrong. Worse, my passwd info will be deleted, resulting in
"Intruder alert!", "You lose!", "Who are you?" and a pile of other
useless error messages.
The right way to do it is with a ref count. I believe that probe has
actrually done this on the rs6k.
Marc
