[OpenAFS] .Xauthority issues

[Neulinger, Nathan]

So link your .bashrc/etc. into public. The idea is that your home
directory itself is just listable. Anything that you want to be public
that is directly in ~, you put in the public/ subdir.

-- Nathan

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Nathan Neulinger                       EMail:  nneul@umr.edu
University of Missouri - Rolla         Phone: (573) 341-4841
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Schulz [mailto:schulz@iwrmm.math.uni-karlsruhe.de]=20
> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 2:33 AM
> To: openafs-info@openafs.org
> Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] .Xauthority issues
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> "Neulinger, Nathan" <nneul@umr.edu> writes:
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> > Simplest approach:
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> > ~: system:anyuser l
> > ~/public: system:anyuser rl
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> > Then just link anything to public that needs to be in ~ but=20
> has to be
> > publically readable.
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> I am not so happy with this solution. Quite often, I say to my
> collegues: "Oh, I already solved that, just look at my
> .bashrc" (or .emcas or .gnus or .whatever...")
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> I would need to make sure that all these pieces are in ~/.public. This
> is clearly doable, but imposes more work on me and other=20
> users; it is a
> bit more restrictive than I would like.=20
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> > More complicated approach - build custom xdm that puts .Xauthority
> > somewhere else.
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> See my other posting.=20
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> Yours,
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> Martin Schulz                            =20
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