[9276] in Athena Bugs
AFS homedir detached out from under user
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (brlewis@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Tue May 5 15:30:20 1992
From: brlewis@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 5 May 92 15:30:05 -0400
To: dryfoo@Athena.MIT.EDU, timo@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [9275]
Here's my take on the pertinent info in this bug report
workstation is privatized, has /etc/nocreate
user is in /etc/passwd
user logs in at console display
user goes away overnight, logs in via dialup through pasta
user returns the next morning to find AFS homedir detached
user does not have detach -a or anything in .logout
nobody else logged in during this time
diff /srvd/etc/crontab /etc/crontab returns nothing
no crontab.local
As it turns out, this is a known bug in which /bin/login detaches the
user's home directory upon logout. With an NFS homedir, this fails
because the device is busy. With AFS, detaching merely involves
removing a symlink, so login "succeeds" in messing you up.
Until this bug gets fixed, Gary will just have to reattach his homedir
whenever this happens.
