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sun4 7.7K: /etc/athena/login/Xsession

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Craig Fields)
Thu Nov 3 16:47:52 1994

To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 03 Nov 1994 16:47:14 EST
From: Craig Fields <cfields@MIT.EDU>

System name:		Take your pick
Type and version:	All platforms
Display type:		Most likely color

What were you trying to do?

	Login with some bad dotfiles.

What's wrong:

	It didn't remove my tokens before it gave up and logged me out.

What should have happened:

	It should have removed my tokens.

Are you making this scenario up?

	Yes.

Why?

	Because you can tell this would be a problem by reading
	the script itself. The script should be changed to print
	its error message and fall through to a single deauthentication
	fragment, rather than having two that someone forgets to
	update both of.

	Oh, there are actually three.

	[Remember that there are scripts per-platform (or at least
	 per-Sun and not-Sun) to be changed.]

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