[16808] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.2.19: login
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Apr 14 17:44:59 1999
To: Ted McCabe <ted@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU, bug-dialup@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Apr 1999 16:28:28 EDT."
<199904142028.QAA01522@chaos>
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 17:44:51 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> I suspect there something more insidious going on. The dialups
> (which are suns running 8.2.17) each have between 50 and 300 user
> directories in /var/athena/tmphomedir.
Only reactivate cleans up temporary home directories as far as I can
tell. (I thought maybe we had modified /etc/athena/clean_tmp_areas to
do it, but I guess not.) So the dialup needs something to take care
of this. The login system does not try to nuke temporary home
directories after they are no longer needed, as a deliberate design
decision.
> At least one of the users listed appears from the timestamps to have
> regularly used his 8 different tmphomedirs and yet his server,
> tantalus, has not been down.
I don't know what would account for this other than deliberate use.
I think I agree with Karl that al_acct_create() should try to go back
to the real home directory if it discovers an existing temporary
directory. I'm not sure if that will be easy or difficult.
