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Re: xlogin doesn't seem to be detaching when people log out
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Fri Feb 4 14:46:36 1994
To: "James H. Haynes" <haynes@cats.ucsc.edu>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 04 Feb 94 11:37:03 -0800.
<Pine.3.89.9402041115.A11456-0100000@hobbes.ucsc.edu>
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 94 14:46:17 EST
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
> By the way, the trouble with xlogin detaching was that (a) I didn't
> realize xlogin was not supposed to detach, and (b) attach needs to be
> linked to fsid and nfsid and zinit, because what xlogin does do is fsid
> unmap the user at logout. The links were not there, so the unmapping
> wasn't happening, so the next user could get at a previous user's files.
> Sal knows about this one now.
What seems to be happening is that people find bugs in the packages,
such as missing programs, links, etc., so they fix the package list,
but they 1) don't send mail about it, and 2) don't recreate the package!
So, I went to look at the package list for attach, and saw that fsid,
nfsid, and zinit were in there!!! So I thought that maybe something
else might be wrong.. Then I compared the dates for the package-list
file and the package! The package list was last modified on Feb 1st.
The package was last created on Jan 14th!
People: if you change the package-list, then please recreate the
package! If you can't recreate the package, please send mail to
linux-dev so that someone else CAN!
Thanks.
-derek
