[18569] in Athena Bugs
Re: sgi 8.4.17: login without home directory under Irix is broken
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles M. Hannum)
Sat Dec 2 00:42:55 2000
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 05:42:28 GMT
Message-Id: <200012020542.eB25gSh05319@trinity.ihack.net>
From: "Charles M. Hannum" <root@ihack.net>
To: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
> > 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?
When we looked at this a bit more at the time, we found that -- at
least on the machine in question -- /var/athena/tmphomedir had
permissions 000, so the `temporary home directory' never actually got
created (even though the window popped up saying it was going to be,
and no errors were reported). After fixing the permissions it worked
as expected.
