[397] in Athena Bugs
Re: login
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry Mensch)
Tue May 24 12:06:54 1988
From: Henry Mensch <henry@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: <qjb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, treese@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, henry@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 23 May 88 13:47:58 -0400.
Date: Tue, 24 May 88 12:05:59 EDT
>Maybe "Warning: Using local home directory" should be suppressed if
>/etc/noattach exists. After all, if your nfs locker can't be attached,
>of course your local home directory will be used (unless it is empty,
>in which case login assumes that lets your home directory be / even if
>your local home directory exists)...)
This is (arguably) not a bug, since the user can't know that
/etc/noattach exists until *after* they login ... and naive users won't
know about it at all (remember that the whole directory-attaching
nonsense is supposed to be invisible to the average joe ) ... and how
will they know that their directory wasn't attached if this message
isn't there?
-- henry
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