[OpenAFS] significant delay for afs user to login as root via su

[ematlis@yahoo.com]

I'm not sure I see the value of putting a file that's part of a distributed network filesystem in a local directory... is that what you are suggesting?  What if you log into a different machine to access your AFS space?

thanks,
eric

--- On Thu, 3/18/10, Harald Barth <haba@kth.se> wrote:

> From: Harald Barth <haba@kth.se>
> Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] significant delay for afs user to login as root via su
> To: achim.gsell@psi.ch
> Cc: ematlis@yahoo.com, openafs-info@openafs.org
> Date: Thursday, March 18, 2010, 6:17 AM
> 
> > /afs/psi.ch/user/g/gsell/.Xauthority 
> 
> Trust me, you don't want your XAUTHORITY information in
> AFS. Put it in
> /tmp/ or some other place where it does not go unecrypted
> over the
> network. Yes, you will have to modify the gdm/xdm config on
> your
> desktop and all X11 forwardig services (sshd) to do the
> right thing at
> all places where $HOME is in AFS.
> 
> Harald.
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