[18531] in Athena Bugs
Re: sgi 8.4.17: login without home directory under Irix is broken
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Tue Nov 21 16:52:16 2000
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 16:51:58 -0500 (EST)
Message-Id: <200011212151.QAA95548@aupair.mit.edu>
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
To: "Charles M. Hannum" <mycroft@mit.edu>
CC: bugs@mit.edu
In-reply-to: "[18529] in Athena Bugs"
> The default environment does not come up when the home
> directory is not attachable. I do not get a dash or a window
> manager, just a console and an xterm with no decorations.
Hi.
This appeared to work when I tried forcing the attach to fail; a
temporary home directory was created, and a default IRIX session,
including the 4Dwm window manager and dash, was started.
When you login on an IRIX machine, does a temporary home directory get
created for you? (xlogin should display a warning to that effect;
the temporary directory's path would be /var/athena/tmphomedir/$USER).
If so, could you please provide the output of "ls -al" on that temp
directory? Does this directory appear as your home directory in
/etc/passwd?
Thanks,
Bob
