[365] in Athena Bugs
X uses HOME in /etc/passwd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jik@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed May 11 15:00:11 1988
From: <jik@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 11 May 88 14:59:01 EDT
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
I logged into a workstation today and it couldn't initially attach my
home directory (God knows why), so it gave me a temporary directory.
I attached fine and changed $home and $HOME to /mit/jik, but when I
started running X programs, they were not respecting the settings in
my .Xdefaults file.
Apparently, the X tools that look for the .Xdefaults file are designed
to do so by using the home directory found in /etc/passwd, not the
home directory found in $HOME or $home.
Bug or feature? I had to go root and change /etc/passwd to get my
.Xdefaults to work.
jik
