[4877] in Athena Bugs
[dkk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU: Re: rt 6.4R: dialup]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Rosenstein)
Mon May 7 12:18:50 1990
Date: Mon, 7 May 90 12:18:38 -0400
From: Mark Rosenstein <mar@MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
From: dkk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 5 May 90 15:57:22 -0400
To: saeed@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: hoffmann@MIT.EDU, bug-dialup@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, ops@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: sAeEd JaFfEr's message of Sat, 5 May 90 10:29:13 -0400,
<9005051429.AA06562@W20-575-88.MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: rt 6.4R: dialup
> The files I uploaded at that time are still there. Possibly that's
> because I'm on AFS (?).
You're right. Your homedir was not attached, according to attachtab,
but the symlink from /mit/saeed to /afs/athena/user/s/saeed was still
there from a previous login. So, login warned you that you were being
logged in with *a* homedir, but presumably not your real homedir
(since the attach failed). If that were a stray local homedir (or a
fake one that someone tried to trap you with) you would want to know
about it, as Ron mentioned.
Attach deals with this problem correctly, but apparently login
doesn't. (The /bin/login attach is a little different than
"/bin/athena/attach <username>" in a few subtle ways.) I think
/bin/login needs to be modified before we give "normal" users AFS
homedirs.
